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    Sing Me Your Scars

    By Damien Angelica Walters

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    About this ebook

    In her first collection of short fiction, Damien Angelica Walters weaves her lyrical voice through suffering and sorrow, teasing out the truth and discovering hope.

    Sometimes a thread pulled through the flesh is all that holds you together. Sometimes the blade of a knife or the point of a nail is the only way you know you're real. When pain becomes art and a quarter is buried deep within you, all you want is to be seen, to have value, to be loved. But love can be fragile, folded into an origami elephant while you disappear, carried on the musical notes that build a bridge, or woven into an illusion so real, so perfect that you can fool yourself for a little while. Paper crumples, bridges fall, and illusions come to an end. Then you must pick up the pieces, stitch yourself back together, and shed your fear, because that is when you find out what you are truly made of and lift your voice, that is when you Sing Me Your Scars.

    Blurbs:
    "Sing Me Your Scars revolves in the mind's eye in a kaleidoscope of darkness and wonder."
    --Laird Barron, author of The Croning and The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

    "Damien Angelica Walters writes prose as sharp as a scalpel. With surgical precision, she slices through her characters' veneers to lay bare the secret scars underneath, the knots of fear and desire twisting them. The women and men in these stories struggle against their own, oddly-beautiful damage, and even when they succumb to it, the narrative is never less than compelling. Anatomist of dreams and nightmares, Walters is a writer to watch."
    --John Langan, author of The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies

    Reviews:
    "From a pure enjoyment perspective, there are few that rival Damien’s style. I will not be the first to talk of how lyrical her prose can be, but I haven’t heard many mention how unobtrusively so it is. It flows easy, like a song, but dammit if she doesn’t manage to pull of the trick of not allowing the wording to distract us from the tale. The images are strong and memorable and the stories are tight and there is even a second person perspective tale in here that doesn’t come across as snobbish and self-conscious."
    --Eviscerating Pen, Anton Cancre

    Table of Contents
    Part I: Here
    Sing Me Your Scars (Apex Magazine issue 70)
    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 (Apex Magazine issue 53)
    Like Origami in Water

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherApex Book Company
    Release dateJul 22, 2015
    ISBN9781310470844
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    • 4/5
      Belated review for LibraryThing Early Reviewers ebook ARC.I read the first story in this collection and it left me with so many thoughts about genre and writer emotion and short story techniques that I have yet to get back to read the rest of the stories.I can't exactly say I enjoyed the story: it left me with a very visceral sense of unease. And yet in a technical sense, it is a very very successful story. I do intend to read the rest of the collection, but I think I might have to be in the mood for darkness first.
    • 2/5
      I received this as a free early reviewers copy back in April. This content proved more difficult for me to read than I anticipated, apologies for the late review. This collection of short stories is hauntingly written with vivid description. But the subject matter is heavy, sometimes brutal, creepy and much of it very depressing and even disturbing. Maybe a little to disturbing for me.
    • 4/5
      I won this book through librarything.com giveaway. When I started to read, I had no clue what kind of stories those will be, so that first story really came as a surprise. I couldn't and couldn't grasp what is going on there till I got in the middle of it. I was suprised and shocked but wasn't disgusted at all. I think it's a great and original style of talking about problems we encounter every day, and it's a fine way to give to the feelings and emotions the body and soul.All stories were really interesting and original and all of them had hidden meaning everyone could find for themselves. The thing that prevents me from giving 5 stars is that though I felt saddened about the situations and life and suffering I couldn't really bond with the characteres to the level I could feel them. I mean, I could understand and I knew that this all is very sad but this didn't get to the personal level - I still couldn't feel pain like it would be mine, couldn't laugh as it was my joy. And for me it's very crucial to really really feel the book.
    • 4/5
      “Sing Me Your Scars” is a collection compiling twenty stories by Damien Angelica Walters and my first contact with this promising writer. The thing I enjoyed more about this book was that I never knew what to expect next, as in general the stories were quite varied thematically, although most of them would fit into the category of dark fantasy and even horror, with a few lighter ones.I found this collection quite solid, as there were only a couple of pieces I didn’t like, and all of them shared an exquisite and poetic prose. But, although there wasn’t any story that was an absolute highlight for me, there was a bunch of them (“Dysphonia in D Minor", “Girl, With Coin”, among others) that I found quite appealing and original. Enough to look forward to future books by this author.I received this as a free early reviewers book.
    • 4/5
      Thanking Apex Publications for this opportunity to review Sing Me Your Scars.I was a virgin. Unfamiliar with Damien Angelica Walters and taking my first steps along the corridors of speculative literature.Was this an example of using metaphors? I guess so! I think it shows how often we actually use them. And frankly, sometimes it is not such a bad idea… Are we capable of dealing with pain, loss, death? To accept the truth?No matter how different the stories in this collection sometimes were, they all had a same underlying tone: the scars. Walters has a unique style of serving them: covered in something darker - sometimes rather macabre, yet charming. A touch of magic perhaps? Something fairytale-like? A collection which will keep you captivated!