A Perfect Scar and Other Stories (Southern Tier Editions)
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 FatherThis welcome volume marks the first time that a collection of  short stories by the prolific Los Angeles writer Trebor Healey has been  assembled in book form. 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, which may be as far as the moon or as close as  the hand of a dying old man, as in 'A California Death'. Libraries wishing  to enhance their collections of contemporary gay fiction should make A  Perfect Scar a priority purchase to support undergraduate and graduate  courses in English and LGBT studies --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. He makes a room warmer with his  presence. 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. I was surprised by each story and trusted Healey as a guide  through these worlds. --Kirk Read, author of How I Learned to SnapTrebor Healey's writing is suffused with the purest emotion, the  bravest, funniest tone, and the perfect balance of poetics, daring, and  charm. Reading him is like listening to your smartest friend--the one with  perfect recall for human foible, mystery, and contradiction. Healey is a  treasure to be savored. --Joy Nicholson, author of The Tribes of Palos Verdes