Kay Oliver

Sick·o - /ˈsikō/- noun informal: A mentally ill or perverted person, especially one who issadistic.A collection of six short stories and one central novella. All seven tales have different sadisticand twisted sickos ready and waiting to strike.In this collection's namesake novella, Spencer, a college student tries to get back home to seehis mother in Wyoming one last time before the growing cancer takes her. A record-breakingstorm grounds all transportation out of Boston and he's left hoping and praying for a miracle. Akind stranger, Jethro, offers him a ride. Is this odd young man a miracle too good to be true?Take a detour through several short stories, including: A man in the woods hunting the ghost ofhis cruel and wicked father in Hunting Season. A cold-blooded, merciless 911 operator that isanything but helpful in Nine One One. A married couple find themselves harboring a monster intheir bathroom in Swap Meet Soap. An intruder with unearthly, deadly forces toys with a youngboy in Sick Day.Back on the road, Jethro slowly peels back his mask of odd, but kind stranger, revealing thehorror of the true sicko beneath. Spencer comes to realize he's now fighting, not just to see hismother before she's gone, but for his life. Will Spencer become just another tale of warning tonever accept rides with strangers?These stories offer more than just the soft kiss of fright or shiver up the spine, they will plungeyou into a labyrinth of pure terror, seven nightmares that only the ruthless and perverse sickosof each tale control.A psychopath is born every forty-seven seconds, you're bound to run into one.

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