The Obsession

by Jesse Q. Sutanto

Do great things. It felt more like a threat than anything. Do great things, or get suspended again, maybe even expelled. Do great things, or get rejected by every college and be a loser for the rest of your life.

He’d pretended to put her back together, but his glue had turned out to be poison, too.

I liked dogs, especially big ones. I liked how they were always panting, like they couldn’t have enough of life and they had to gulp down every moment of it.

Because one thing I had learned about predators is that there can only be one around. Lisa, Brandon, and Logan were all predators, in their own ways. And, as it turned out, so was I. Maybe Lisa sensed that I was a bit of a natural when it came to killing predators. That I was the snake after all. And maybe, just maybe, I liked it a little.