"The Cookie Lady" is a horror short story by American writer Philip K. Dick.
It was originally published in the June 1953 issue of the magazine Fantasy Fiction.
Bernard "Bubber" Surle is a young boy who enjoys visiting Mrs. Drew, a lonely old widow who bakes him cookies.
He visits her after school every day, and reads to her after eating cookies.
Bubber, however, is drained of his physical energy, and while walking home is reduced to dust and is carried away by the wind.