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It’s time to announce the final Table of Contents for CHIRAL MAD 5, to be released in late spring / early summer by Written Backwards. The anthology will feature writers and poets from around the world. More information can be found here.

Editor: Michael Bailey

Illustrator: Seth Brown 

Fiction:

• “Strawberry Spring” by Stephen King
• “There Are No Basements in the Bible” by Josh Malerman
• “Three Nights of Shadows” by John Langan
• “Recognition” by Victor LaValle
• “Observer Dependent Universe” by Christa Wojciechowski
• “A Plague of Loving Grace” by Cody Goodfellow
• “The Kitowaj” by Roberta Lannes
• “Swan Song” by Elin Olausson
• “The Unburdening of Lavender” by Gene O’Neill
• “We Are Vignettes” by Tlotlo Tsamaase
• “Lifetimes” by Koji A. Dae
• “Falling Down the Wayle” by Kehkashan Khalid
• “Seeds” by J. Federle
• “What Is Lost in the Smoke” by Laura Blackwell
• “Impressions of a Vizard-Mask, Surrounding the Great Troubles of 1907” by Emily B. Cataneo
• “Persistence” by Jonathan Lees
• “Feeling Like a Big Kid at the End of the Beginning” by Paul Michael Anderson
• “Tears That Never Stain” by Jessica May Lin
• “The Drunken Tree” by Tonya Liburd
• “The Queen of Talley’s Corner” by Gary A. Braunbeck
• “Sable’s Bestiary for Those Who Remain” by Hailey Piper
• “Redstarts in the Last Summer” by Vajra Chandrasekera
• “Ancestries” by Sheree Renée Thomas
• “Elevator” by Michael Paul Gonzalez
• “I’m Not Sam” by Jack Ketchum & Lucky McKee (novella, paperback / hardback only)

Poetry:

• “With the Black Ribbon” by Erik T. Johnson
• “My People” by Lulu L. Wong / “My People” by Langston Hughes
• “Deicide” by Henna Johansdotter
• “Sing My Carnage in a Hayfield” by Sara Tantlinger
• “Faith” / “At the Downtown University” by Lucy A. Snyder
• “Backspace Is a Language In Our Dreams” / “Every Day Can’t Be April” by Nnadi Samuel
• “Chasing the Serpent” by Marge Simon
• “Dark Neighborhood” by Cindy O’Quinn
• “Corpuscular” / “Absence” / “Chalk” by Shane Douglas Keene
• “The Infinite Lives of the Little Match Girl” by Christina Sng
• “Seasonal Meat” / “Parable of the Blue Man” (flash prose) by Jamal Hodge
• “Asphyxia” / “Black Robes, Red Hats, and White Oblivion” (flash prose) by Maxwell I. Gold
• “Magmatic” by LH Moore
• “Yesterday at 1:53 p.m.” by B.E. Scully
• “Spectacular Degeneration” / “The Tableau” by Zoje Stage
• “Colorblind” by Wrath James White
• “Seven Symptoms of the End/Beginning/End/Beginning…” by Linda D. Addison

Amazon: eBook | trade paperback | hardcover. Also available in the UK, Canada, Australia, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, India, Brazil, Mexico, Netherlands, Japan, and a part of Kindle Unlimited where available.

Barnes & Noble: trade paperback | hardcover

Books-A-Million (BAM!): Coming soon!