D. K. Cassidy Bücher

Within these pages you will meet an array of characters. Choices are made that will change lives. Are they right or wrong? You decide. Each brief story deliberately distills a life's essence. Mika Sugano's original illustrations compliment D. K. Cassidy's flashes of fiction, heightening these refreshing ideas and themes on the page. Welcome to urban Gothic stories that are droll, horrific, and thought provoking. George, a child who collects things Cinderella's stepmother in therapy A paraplegic finds her true life Caleb, unwanted, neglected, now grown Jared, baptized in a coffee world A mother lost in her torn past And six others

Pria is a young woman obsessed with two things: plucking anything and everything in her path, and George, her childhood friend. As a young girl, Pria stood out for her otherness. The only brown child in her school, she withdrew into her own world. Now as an adult she tries to normalize her life by coming to terms with her differences. To do this, she must find George. He was her first living obsession, and now she needs to find him to understand why she can't stop thinking about him. Plagued by her need to pluck continuously, Pria feels trapped in a world of compulsions: the compulsion to follow her rigid daily schedule, the need to collect the miraculous strings growing out of her thin arms, and the love of visiting her avian friends every Wednesday. Will finding George give Pria the peace she seeks? Or will she retreat further into the depths of her obsession with plucking? In The Plucker, best-selling author D.K. Cassidy continues the story of characters who first appeared in Spilt Milk: A Collection of Stories.

In 2111, no one in the Nation sleeps unless they earn it-the hard way. Kate does the dirty jobs no one else wants to do, stuck in a dead-end job-to-job lifestyle that weighs down on her soul, all so she can fade away into a half-remembered dream of a better tomorrow that might never come. But when her friend Decker reveals himself as one of the Sleepers-rebel citizens in hiding who can still sleep naturally-she finds herself faced with a choice. Stay in her seemingly hopeless yet safe world. Or help the Sleepers uncover the mystery behind the sleepless plague.

D.K. Cassidy, the best-selling author of Spilt Milk: A Collection of Stories, continues the story of some of the characters that first appeared in Spilt Milk. Everyone believes in their own version of reality. Will the past deeds of Caleb, Joy, and George come back to haunt them? Discover realities on the spectrum between normal and fantasy. Earlier experiences shape the present and future. Choices change lives. Can a murderer decide to stop killing? Can a woman regain the confidence she had in her twenties? Can a lonely man find the perfect companion? Welcome to the world of Curious Reality. Are any of your realities curious?"

The Sleepers are looking for answers. Why do some people sleep while others cannot? Kate and Decker dream of a way to help the citizens of the Nation. For that reason, they name themselves the Dreamers. After ten years of being told the outside world is no longer inhabitable, Decker now questions if that is true. After the Dreamers uncover shocking information from the Capitol, it becomes more important than ever to find a way out of the Nation. The question is: What will they find if they get past the Wall?