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As a thank you for helping with the Written Backwards eBook Sale, three e-Books will be available for free this weekend only, Saturday through Sunday: three firsts by Michael Bailey: Palindrome Hannah (1st novel), Scales and Petals (1st collection), and Our Children, Our Teachers (1st standalone novelette).

Amazon will list these for $0.00 / £0.00 starting at 12:00am on the 15th until 11:59pm on the 16th. All other e-Book titles part of the Written Backwards eBook Sale are still available for $0.99 / £0.99 through midnight on the 18th.

Enter a cruel palindrome world: a symmetric place where disturbing situations displace the common; where good acts transmute to evil ones; where windows and mirrors are interchangeable. Within, characters influence each other through macabre arrangements of involuntary happenstance, and learn the inevitabilities of coincidence. A segmented story of a mother and daughter intertwines the others. This hidden sixth story, assembled from the five separate narratives, uncovers the sad life of a child who carries a palindrome name, and her struggling teenage mother. With five stories heading one direction, and Hannah traveling the opposite, the story unfolds like a palindrome. A puzzle within a puzzle.

Between writing the novels Palindrome Hannah and Phoenix Rose, Michael Bailey penned and published a number of these dark short fiction and poetry pieces, some of which can be found in literary magazines and  anthologies  around the world.  A few of these fallen dragon scales and flower petals, as he likes to call them, are reprinted here, while others are seeing print for the first time, hand selected and arranged by the author. Once you crack the spine, there’s no going back.

Children are often our greatest teachers, but what happens if the lesson is too heavy to hold? In Our Children, Our Teachers, a high school in rural Brenden, Washington is taken hostage by a gathering of unlikely students trying to teach the world a new lesson … a foreshadowing, perhaps, to darker times ahead for the American education system, if gun control is not addressed properly.

All other Written Backwards titles listed below will continue to run for only $0.99 / £0.99 until midnight, September 18th.