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CHIRAL MAD 5, the end of the Chiral Mad series of anthologies, is now available for pre-order, to be released in hardcover, paperback, and eBook on September 27th, 2022.

Order directly from the publisher on the Written Backwards Anthology page, or from anywhere books are sold, such as the following . . .

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!): trade paperback | hardcover

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