Editor Selected as "December 2015" Read of the Month, Southern Literary Review (www.southernlitreview.com) Wilson flips from raw and biting to warm and human so quickly the reader is left breathless. --William Bernhardt, New York Times Bestselling Author Exceptional writing from an author who knows the comedy, frailty, and folly of the human heart. A terrific book. --Walter Bennett, author of Leaving Tuscaloosa, Alabama Author Award, Fiction, 2015 Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma is anything but a sleepy town these days. Special-needs ghost Billy Craig haunts the Pen & Quill Creative Writing Society at the local Pioneer Public Library; Jo Anna Lizbeth Williams finds herself at the heart of Mr. Right's sexual deviance, while across town Janice Lynn solves her homelessness crisis by winning self-respect and a lime green Volkswagen.

Mrs. Mavis Butler falls prey to a literal sinkhole and finds true love. Authentic, poignant, and humorous as the fiction of Bobbie Ann Mason and Billie Letts, "Want v. Need" is a must-read collection.