Needles and Sins — John Everson

Roses scented with bitter deception.Oracles redolent in hidden redemption.A body-mod-obsessed ingenue with an amputee fetish. A demon gone soft on a bitter angel. Dreamcatchers.An alternate Nativity with a pimp God and a non-compliant Mary. Stupid Bitch the three-legged cat.The secret explanation of how Germany almost won the war with the devil on their side. These are just a few of the provocative sets in these 19 stories rife with "Needles & Sins"...Featuring a ton of new fiction and some hard-to-find reprints:Needles & SinsSomething InsideThe Strong Will SurviveBeginning Was the EndLetting GoThe Char-LeeBloodrosesMade For Each OtherSpirits Having FlownWarming the WomenMaryGreen Green GlassDevil's PlatoonMutilation StreetLove & Sex & Rope & Screams: A Circus in Five ActsAnd Then SomeAfter the Fifth StepBirth and DeathYou Never Got Used to the NeedleIrrelevant in Anathzebra