Prelude To A Scream Author:Jim Nisbet It's been years since Stanley Ahearn lost interest in staying alive. — Every Friday night, Stanley pays a visit to San Francisco's Tenderloin District, where pleasures are simple and cheap. One such night, he finds himself sharing an otherwise deserted bar with a green-eyed woman. Afterward, all he would remember was that, right after she... more » cried, they left the bar together.
Three days later, Stanley wakes in Golden Gate Park to find himself zipped into a sleeping bag, left for dead. He's missing a kidney, the latest casualty of a gang of organ thieves.
Just before he's expelled from the hospital for having no insurance, a doctor kindly informs Stanley that there's something wrong -- fatally wrong -- with his remaining kidney.
And Stanley Ahearn finds himself on the street with a new perspective.
If he wants to live he has to find himself a new kidney.
Perhaps life and revenge are one and the same.« less