"Embracing The Starlight" includes twelve of the very best fictions of Dave Smeds. Stories included in this volume are: Suicidal Tendencies, Fearless, A Wife of Acorn, Leaf, and Rain, The Eighth of December, Termites, A Raven On My Shoulder, Family Values, Cookie Jar, Sorceress of The Gulls, Foam, Short Timer, and Survivor.