Suck Suck Suck

"Riveting, disturbing."

"Deeply weird...very ticklish...the strangest thing I have ever read."

"An odd collection of stories...Scheidemantel can weave a story!"

Seven strange and perplexing stories make up this debut collection. Disturbing, darkly comic, and just plain odd. These tales slip subtly out of the mundane into the bizarre and inexplicable, each one weirder than the next.

A young teen meets the new girl at church, but soon develops an unhealthy obsession with her and takes over her whole life. When an accountant loses his debit card at an ATM, he finds his way to the bank's branch manager, who slowly robs him of everything he has. After an abused altar boy's spirit is trapped inside the church's water tank, he meets another spirit who shows him an ingenious way to find spiritual resolution. The desire to steal a necklace from her employer's home turns a babysitter's life upside down. Trapped inside the Devil's sock drawer, a breast cancer survivor comes across her own warped self. Two closeted young men find love-but a deranged murderer finds them, too.

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