The title, "Lord of Obstacles" is taken from the Indian elephant diety, Ganesh, The Lord of Obstacles. The story centers around a young man who sustains a traumatic brain injury during the Gulf War and now works as a freelance writer and researcher in Seattle. He is given an assignment to interview and document the case of an eleven year-old girl who awoke from a long-term vegetative coma following brain surgery and now has exact memories belonging...