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Michael wanted to back out of a trip to the South of France after his wife left him, but his sister and their friends would not hear of it. His fellow houseguest Rupert is not in the mood either, having recently been widowed. But rather than bonding, Michael is unsettled by Rupert's constant needling, and the bug bites are enough to suck the life right out of an idyllic holiday. A short story by B.A. Paris, part of Obsession, a collection of compulsively readable stories about people pushed to their extremes.