Ooh - my horror story Special Needs Child gets a listing in Winter Chills, Simon Bestwick's seasonal list of 10 recommended creepy stories:
Special Needs Child does have a certain sexual theme, but it is in No Way Erotic. As Simon says:
The narrator, a hard-bitten Iraq veteran, takes part in the clean-up that follows the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and discovers a pregnant woman’s decaying corpse. The body’s surely too far gone in decay to have a living child inside it… and yet it does. She adopts the child, but despite her best efforts at denial, it slowly becomes clear that there’s something very wrong with him. It’s a belter of a story, and with an ending that definitely isn’t for the easily shocked.
Full review / list here
Amazon UK - Kindle and paperback
Amazon US - Kindle and paperback
Emmanuelle de Maupassant's not-really-erotica collection Cautionary Tales - which I reviewed here - also gets enthusiastic mention BTW!
Thank you so much, Simon! XXX
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