The Best of Obsessions

OBSESSIONS: Desires and emotions that can't be reasoned with. With these fourteen stories and one poem, prepare to enter a world of darkness, a world where desires and needs are twisted into something so monstrous not even death can end them.

In a time of war, a badly wounded soldier tries to heal for the sake of the children.

A fifteen hundred pound man with an appetite that know no bounds.

In a rigged contest for a camper, a crooked promoter learns what real determination is.

A demented woman believes she's pregnant by Satan. Alone in a crumbling tenement, she's about to deliver a child.

A server at a pizza restaurant takes his desire for neatness to the ultimate level.

What would you give to have your dead child back? One father is about to find out.

If you had a chance to be God, would you take it? What if you had no choice?

Stories included in this collection:

In the Cold, Dark Time / JOE R. LANSDALE

Woodgrains / JOHN SHIRLEY

Crispy Notes / NICHOLAS ROYLE

Topsy / F. PAUL WILSON

Franklin and the Can of Whup-Ass / BILL CRIDER

The Cut / L. Bradley Law

Lady Madonna / NANCY HOLDER

Empathy / GLEN VASEY

The Bookman / CHET WILLIAMSON

Richard’s Head / AL SARRANTONIO

Down Home / EDWARD BRYANT

Heart of Gold / NINA KIRIKI HOFFMAN

Sanctuary of the Shrinking Soul / ELIZABETH MASSIE

The Second Most Beautiful Woman in the World / A. R. MORLAN

Alone of His Kind / DAVID B. SILVA