Dick was not only my friend, he was a hero to me, and it is an incredible honor to have his words at the beginning of this book. It made the Preliminary Ballot for the Bram Stoker Award. It was also the first widely read thing I ever got published. This novella is new to the collection. Suffice to say, this one has earned me more fan mail and hate mail than anything else I've written.
Abortion is an emotional topic, and one that people have deep convictions about.
I didn't write this story to examine those moral issues. I wrote it to get the taste of gunmetal out of my throat and stay alive a little longer. This story has been reprinted a bunch of times, and its appearance in this book will not be the last. Later on this year, it will show up in the audio book Storytellers 2, read by yours truly and published by Lone Wolf Publications. It's got ghosts, a monster on a rampage, and the nastiest stained glass windows in the world.