I want to be arrested so that I may witness stars again, stars like the shining on the ceiling in my 8-year-old’s midnight bedroom, the floor strewn with toy soldiers and wet newspapers, with elephants and wolves, with broken flower petals from my parents’ wedding.

So opens Scar, the first offering in this new collection of innovative prose poems and flash fictions from John Parras. We bring you these quirky, surprising, sometimes disturbing fragments from the collective culture and consciousness in a limited edition chapbook, hand-stitched at the press with walnut linen thread, and Thai mango and banana bark inclusion endpapers, a feast for the senses as well as the imagination.