I Know What You Need

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krwhiting

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This one has a special fear that I can't really get into. The fear of a woman pursued by a man who will stop at nothing to manipulate her into his control. I've seen this from the other side (not the black magic stuff, but the manipulative trickery that "players" employ to get women in their power, and that's Devilish enough). I wonder if men like that ever stop to look in a mirror and ask themselves who they really are.

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Sunlight Gardener

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I couldn't remember much about it either because it had been so long. Recently got the Audio CD's of Graveyard Shift and listened to it. I was presently surprised. Nice little twist on obsession.
 

Pucker

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This one scares me more now than it ever did when I first read it, primarily because "stalking" has become such an entirely different (and easier) thing in this fine internet age. I may or may not really know what you need. But maybe I could Google it. Of course, the nature of stalking hasn't changed and that's the true terror. Forget the voodoo. Look at the story as a simple tale of manipulation and it becomes scarier still, because this is what people do.

They fixate.

Jonathan Katz used to do a great bit where he would come out with his guitar and introduce his number by saying:

"I wrote this song as a very young man . . . the first time I realized that loving someone is no guarantee that they will love you back. It's called "Loving Someone Is No Guarantee That They Will Love You Back."

There isn't really any song, it's just a very dry joke.

I'm not sure why I bring that up here, unless it's because an awful lot of people who aren't even really all that crazy get into trouble sometimes confusing love with . . . other stuff . . . and if I've learned anything in the company of the fairer sex (and it's quite possible I haven't) it's that "other stuff" can be a shoreless sea.
 

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This story always creeped me out, too. The way Elizabeth loses herself so completely is horrifying, mostly because it happens to people in abusive relationships everyday.
 
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Pucker

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I wonder if men like that ever stop to look in a mirror and ask themselves who they really are.

I would suspect that what men (and women . . . women manipulate too, you know) like that see when they look in the mirror has little to do with who they really are.