Dark Seeker by K.W. Jeter @kwjeter is in The Philip K Dick Award Storybundle!
Dark Seeker by K.W. Jeter is in The Philip K Dick Award Storybundle! His son is dead... Or that's what he believed. Caught up in the lethal madness of a Manson-like cult, Tyler has lost everything that once mattered to him. Out of prison, on a strict regimen of medications to keep the demons inside his head from returning, he knows he's always one small step away from returning to that dark place and its horrors. So when his ex-wife emerges from the shadows into which she had fled, and tells him that their son is still alive, kidnapped by another former member of the murderous group, Tyler has some tough, soul-threatening decisions to make. He can take the safe route that will keep him sane and alive, and just assume that his ex-wife is lost in some psychotic delusion about their dead son. Or he can take the risk that maybe -- just maybe -- she's somehow telling the truth. He can stop taking the medications that the doctors give him, and go back into th...