Obsessions. A Short Story Anthology collects the short stories awarded in a creative writing competition for non-native students of English philology from Poland and Sweden. It containg eleven stories, representing a varied choice of topics, forms and subjects inspired by the competition theme. The afterword summarises the jury’s verdict and offers more detailed impressions on all the awarded stories, while the theoretical article discusses the up-to-date scholarship on the genre of the short story, locating the anthologised text in the generic framework. The qualitative analyses are supported by stylometric methods applied to a comprehensive corpus of texts.