The Mosquito

After his marriage fails, Michael hopes a vacation in France will relax and restore him. But fate has something more poisonous in store.

Michael wanted to back out of this trip to the South of France after his wife left him, but his sister and their friends wouldn’t hear of it. His fellow houseguest Rupert isn’t in the mood, either, having recently been widowed.

But rather than bonding, Michael is unsettled by Rupert’s constant needling. That and the bug bites are enough to suck the life right out of an idyllic holiday.

The Mosquito is part of Obsession, a collection of compulsively readable short stories about people pushed to their extremes.