Miss Dow peered through the window.
A young man, tall and well-muscled, stood in the middle of the room. He was naked. His uncut black hair fell to the small of his back.
His chest was slit with a gaping wound that bled profusely, his legs and stomach were soaked with blood.
"Why is he smiling? What is he staring at?" she asked, unable to take her eyes off the figure before her.
"I don't know," said Doctor Santell. "Why don't you ask him?"
The novel based on Native American science fiction author Craig Strete's Nebula Award finalist short story, "The Bleeding Man."
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Craig Kee Strete is a Native American science fiction writer, noted for his use of American Indian themes.
Beginning in the early 1970s, while working in the Film and Television industry, Strete began writing emotional Native American themed, and science fiction short stories and novellas. He is a three-time Nebula Award finalist, for Time Deer, A Sunday Visit with Great-grandfather, and The Bleeding Man.
In 1974 Strete published a magazine dedicated to Native American science fiction, Red Planet Earth. His play Paint Your Face On A Drowning In The River was the 1984 Dramatists Guild/CBS New Plays Program first place winner.