"The Lover of Eastlake," by Sam Wiebe, in The Killing Rain, edited by Jim Thomsen, Down and Out Books, 2024.
This is the fourth time in thirteen years that I have reviewed stories by the same author two weeks in a row. Very different story, I assure you.
Rachel Miles is in Seattle Children's Hospital tonight. The neonatal wing. She just had her baby. Not mine, of course, how could it be, she hasn't met me yet. But that's okay. A baby is acceptable to me. She and I have all the time in the world to start a family of our own.
Hoo boy. We know a lot about this guy after one paragraph, don't we? He is delusional and obsessed with a woman who is, as it turns out, a married film star.
He knows he has competition for her. First, there is her husband. And then there are the other fans. "How I hate them all. Loud, stupid, ugly, all crazy with emotion."
Crazy seems a very relevant word here. This guy is creepy and dangerous, and also full of slogans and ideas he gathered from self-help books.
Nicely scary stuff.
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