Sublime short stories bound together by folly, fate, and passion.
A Perfect Scar and Other Stories is a whimsical, sly, and slightly crazy collection of short stories from award-winning novelist, poet, and songwriter Trebor Healey. These 12 tales cover a lot of ground, including AIDS, aging, death, eroticism, tattoos, and multiculturalism–all told with humor, insight, and Healey’s rich, lyrical touch. This sometimes poignant, sometimes erotic assortment of fauns, punks, cowboy dykes, old men with swollen prostates, young men with criminal records, and gangsters doomed by their own beauty and grace are bound together by folly, fate, and passion in their search to find some semblance of peace in the world.
Recipient of the 2004 Ferro-Grumley and Violet Quill awards for his novel, Through It Came Bright Colors (Harrington Park Press), Trebor Healey is also the author of a collection of poems, Sweet Son of Pan (Suspect Thoughts, 2006). He co-edited (with Marci Blackman) Beyond Definition: New Writing from Gay and Lesbian San Francisco (Manic D Press, 1994) and co-edited (with Amie M. Evans) Queer & Catholic (Routledge, 2008). His short fiction and poetry were nominated for a 2008 Pushcart Prize. Trebor lives in Los Angeles
Praise
“Trebor Healey’s writing is suffused with the purest emotion, the bravest, funniest tone, and the perfect balance of poetics, daring, and charm.” —Joy Nicholson, author of The Tribes of Palos Verdes
“The eleven selections take the reader on far journeys in space and time, from Ireland, the forests of Alaska, and the cobblestone streets of Guanajuato to the streets and saloons of California’s post Gold Rush prosperity and San Francisco in the age of AIDS. . . . PULLS THE READER IN IMMEDIATELY AND OFFERS A JOURNEY TO THE DISTANT COASTS OF EMOTION.” —Robert Ridinger, Northern Illinois University, Editor, Speaking For Our Lives: Historic Speeches and Rhetoric for Gay and Lesbian Rights (1892 – 2000)
“Trebor Healey is all soul. . . . The way he stacks sentences vibrates on the page. There’s an impressive, experimental range in this short story collection. Trebor Healey uses multiple narrators to bring voice to a variety of human experiences.” —Kirk Read, author of How I Learned to Snap
“Shows us men and women whose lives have been, or are about to be, forever altered by love. . . . SHARP, EMPATHIC, AND UNFORGETTABLE.” —Bernard Cooper, author of The Bill From My Father
“It’s difficult to pick favorites within the wealth of imagination and evocative imagery…” 4 Stars —Rainbow Reviews
“This collection was a true pleasure to read. I keep picking up the book and rereading passages, mesmerized. Thumbs up, but it deserves higher praise than that.”: —Kathleen Bradean, Erotica Revealed
