

Scar Tissue
Seven Stories of Love and Wounds
Author: Marcus Sakey
Narrator: Marcus Sakey
Unabridged: 2 hr 30 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 06/12/2012
Categories: Fiction, Short Stories
Synopsis
Nick is back from Iraq, or so he keeps telling himself. But an old squad mate shows there are some battlefields you can't leave behind. (Twice short-listed for Best Short Story of 2009)* "Gravity and Need"
After having sex with a total stranger atop a $3000 television, you're supposed to walk away. But for two lonely people, that's just the beginning of a very complicated relationship.* "No One"
The line between love and obsession is stretched razor-taut in this story where nothing is as it seems—and no one can be trusted.* "Cobalt"
In this comic send-up the dotcom era, as the world panics over the last days of Y2K, one man searches for his soul. If he could only remember where last he saw it...* "The Time Before the Last"
The shortest story I've ever written. It's also inspired three paintings and made my wife cry.* "As Breathing"
Billy Dexter has sworn off killing. But when he falls in love with the wrong woman, Dex discovers murder is a hard habit to break.* "The Days When You Were Anything Else"
Frank has been many things: a conman, a hustler, a thief. But when his little girl finds herself in desperate trouble, he has one final shot at becoming something that matters.——-MARCUS SAKEY IS:—-"A brilliant writer."
-The Huffington Post "Brainy, twisty, twisted, and entirely ingenious."
-Gillian Flynn, bestselling author of GONE GIRL"One of our best storytellers."
-Michael Connelly, bestselling author of THE LINCOLN LAWYER"Exactly the electric jolt crime fiction needs."
-Dennis Lehane, bestselling author of MYSTIC RIVER"The new reigning prince of crime fiction."
-The Chicago Tribune