CICATRIX recounts the sometimes strange and scaring adventures in Mexico of several sets of people as they travel the more than one thousand mile long road down the Baja California peninsula from Tijuana to Cabo San Lucas. Bones and Eugene chase a motorcyclist with awful intent. The Professor and assistants collect fossils and party. Gerald interviews for a scholarship and friend Earl has fun, fun, fun. Brad ponders a shaky marriage while romping through casual sex. Johann and Valerie sightsee from a chauffeured Bentley. Ethel tries to forget a runaway gay husband. A mystery man tracks them, a puzzle decipherable by astute readers, perhaps.

Moonset Horizon is well known for the biggest view of the moon in the world. It's more than a picturesque city for it has curled up many ancient secrets up its sleeve and only comes alive during nightfall. He entered this world, unknowingly but soon became one with this new being within himself. From being a recluse to being a strong, determined and the most popular young'un of the school, he soon achieved all his aspirations but one. She was the foremost reason of his arrival in this ravenous town and an inspiration to his life, will he give her up? Or fight the law of the supernatural forces? Can he get her back... the love of his life in exchange for that lasting scar - the Cicatrix?

""A debut collection from a promising young poet, an oxymoronic cicatr;x offers inventive, gut punching poems...I'm already looking forward to his next book."" -Shanny Jean Maney Author of I Love Science! and co-founder of The Encyclopedia Show ""what's most enchanting about this debut collection is that it's wholly unafraid of its own crackling, visceral magic...as deeply interested in love as it is in loss. it knows that each of us contains great reservoirs of both sorrow & joy, but rather than lamenting that our happiness is always a little bit tinged with heartbreak, these poems ask us to celebrate the little fires that reside inside of us, the embers that can guide us through even our darkest nights. as heyne reminds us, "if you're reading this you and I are still alive." it's within this kind of insistent, open vein of devotion that an oxymoronic cicatr;x finds its exceptional alchemy. rest assured, heyne & kislych will leave you spellbound."" -Maggie Woodward Author of FOUND FOOTAGE