Sing Me Your Scars
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 in 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.
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.
Damien Angelica Walters
Writing as Damien Walters Grintalis, Damien's short fiction appeared in magazines such as Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Daily Science Fiction, Interzone, Fireside, and others, and her novel, Ink, was released in December 2012 from Samhain Horror.
As Damien Angelica Walters, her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Year's Best Weird Fiction - Volume One, The Best of Electric Velocipede, Streets of Shadows, Nightmare Magazine, Lightspeed, Jamais Vu, Shock Totem, Shimmer, Apex Magazine, Strange Horizons, Daily Science Fiction, Drabblecast, Pseudopod, PodCastle, Glitter & Mayhem, What Fates Impose, and others.
Apex Voices
Apex Voices consists of three books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.