Pressure Points

How thick is your skin? Think your nerve endings are safe? This baker's dozen of dark delicacies from a rising voice in fantastic literature begs to differ. Meet the strange, wonderful and truly frightening in a music pirate's worst nightmare, a god whose vengeance knows the patience of ages, a woman with a fearsome weapon in her mind that wants out, a school bus of children that may be bound for a terrible fate, a man returned from the grave to confront his killer - his own dead father, and more. From divine madness to desire unchecked, these stories aim for your soft spots with an intensity and fury that will both shiver and simmer by your side when you turn out the light.