The Object of her Obsession

There's something about Felipe-Janssen knives, the fancy
ones you used to be able to get at Milano's on Tenth Street in downtown Grand
Forks. My Uncle Phil got us a set of them for Christmas a half dozen years back, the ones with the
guaranteed Eversharpâ„¢ blades that come in one of those fancy velvet-lined
boxes.



Most of them are gone now. Misplaced or thrown away. All
except the filleter. I was always so careful to keep that one hidden away. I
wanted to make sure it wouldn't get lost or misused like the others.



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Three summers. That's how long seventeen-year-old Emma
Harris has been secretly watching Jesse, the boy her uncle hires to fix the
fences on their remote North Dakota ranch. Now, three years after her father's
death, Emma is ready to make him hers. There's just one thing standing in her
way, and it's her mother.



Tags: short story, mild erotic horror, suspense, murder,
abuse/self-cutting



Ages: young adults and older (16+)



Length: approx. 10,500 words (roughly 40 print pages)



Saul Tanpepper is a writer of short stories and novels of
speculative fiction for the undead of all ages. He lives in Northern
California. Please visit him at his home on the web: tanpepperwrites(dot)com.