Sing Me Your Scars (Apex Voices Book 3)

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by Damien Angelica Walters


  I drop the bag, and the not-elephant tumbles out onto the ground. The air rushes out of my lungs; everything turns to a blur. I cover my eyes to hold in the tears, but they won’t stay inside. I can’t make them stay.

  The not-elephant still holds a trace of Johnny’s smell, his real scent, not the stink of his illness. I cradle it to my chest, rocking back and forth while all the hurt he left behind spills out.

  There isn’t enough paper in the world to make it go away.

  About the Author

  Damien Angelica Walters’ short fiction has appeared in various magazines and anthologies, including Year’s Best Weird Fiction Volume One, The Best of Electric Velocipede, Strange Horizons, Nightmare, Lightspeed, Apex, Streets of Shadows, What Fates Impose, and Glitter & Mayhem. Paper Tigers, a novel, will be released in late 2015 from Dark House Press.

  Writing as Damien Walters Grintalis, Damien’s short fiction appeared in Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Fireside, Daily Science Fiction, and others, and Ink, a novel, was released in December 2012 by Samhain Horror.

  She’s also a freelance editor, and until the magazine’s closing in 2013, she was an Associate Editor of the Hugo Award-winning Electric Velocipede. You can find her on Twitter @DamienAWalters or online at: damienangelicawalters.com.

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  Table of Contents

  PART I: HERE

  Sing Me Your Scars

  All the Pieces We Leave Behind

  Girl, With Coin

  Paskutinis Iliuzija (The Last Illusion)

  Glass Boxes and Clockwork Gods

  Sugar, Sin, and Nonsuch Henry

  PART II: AND THE NOW

  Running Empty in a Land of Decay

  Scarred

  The Taste of Tears in a Raindrop

  Always, They Whisper

  Dysphonia in D Minor

  Shall I Whisper to You of Moonlight, of Sorrow, of Pieces of Us?

  Immolation: A Love Story

  PART III: AND AWAY

  Melancholia in Bloom

  Iron and Wood, Nail and Bone

  And All the World Says Hush

  They Make of You a Monster

  Paper Thin Roses of Maybe

  Grey in the Gauge of His Storm

  Like Origami in Water

 

 

 


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