These Words Leave Scars

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>We all have our scars don't we?</em></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Scars define us-marked flesh etched tapestries of tissue. But scars can form on the inside too. This collection of short stories is intended to leave you with scars of the mental variety. Each tale is an open wound and I invite you to come with me and explore them gash to gash.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>A nomadic vagabond seeking acceptance a woman enslaved in a dark pocket dimension to something with carnal appetites a mermaid swimming her last lap in a dying ocean and so many other little bruises and lacerations stories that slip into your brain and explore like a rotating knife.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>You'll read and you'll bleed and the scars will remain.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>The scars I give you are meant to last.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Open the book and show me your softest patch of skin.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>I'll do the rest.</em></p>