Chiral Mad 2, edited by Michael Bailey of Written Backwards, is now available on Amazon. Chiral Mad 2 is an anthology of psychological horror containing twenty-eight short stories by established authors and newcomers from around the world. All profit from sales of this anthology go directly to Down syndrome charities.
My short story “Flowers Blooming in the Season of Atrophy” is included in this anthology. Here is what editor Michael Bailey had to say about it: “School shootings are touchy subjects, but, when a story of such controversy is formed by beautiful words and pieced together masterfully by someone who really knows what he’s doing, like this Max Booth III character, it somehow works. ‘Flowers Blooming in the Season of Atrophy,’ as the title hints, is a multi-POV work of art told through passion/suffering.”
You can purchase Chiral Mad 2 directly through Amazon. After you see the table of contents, I don’t know how you’ll be able to resist. Seriously, check this out:
01. ANOTHER MAN’S BONES – MASON IAN BUNDSCHUH
02. MNEMONICIDE – JAMES CHAMBERS
03. FLOWERS BLOOMING IN THE SEASON OF ATROPHY – MAX BOOTH III
04. THE COUNSELOR – MORT CASTLE
05. DEAR BOY – JOHN BIGGS
06. INTERFERENCE – ANDREW HOOK
07. PICTURE-IN-PICTURE – DUSTIN LAVALLEY
08. WHEN I WAS – THOMAS F. MONTELEONE
09. TIGHT PARTNERS – GENE O’NEILL
10. APPROACHING LAVENDER – LUCY A. SNYDER
11. ORANGE IS FOR ANGUISH, BLUE FOR INSANITY – DAVID MORRELL
12. IN THE EYES OF THE BEHOLDER – ANN K. BOYER
13. EMPATHY – JOHN SKIPP
14. VERSIONS – E. L. KEMPER
15. THE TENDED FIELD OF EIDO YAMATA – JON MICHAEL EMORY
16. PLAYING WITH FIRE – RICHARD THOMAS
17. INDIAN SUMMER – PHILIP C. PERRON
18. BLOOD WOMEN – USMAN T. MALIK
19. WHITECHAPEL – P. GARDNER GOLDSMITH
20. THE CHUTE – GARY MCMAHON
21. SCAVENGING – KEVIN LUCIA
22. THE WORD – RAMSEY CAMPBELL
23. WELCOME HOME, ALL YOU UNINVITED – ERIK T. JOHNSON
24. THE GEMINIS – JOHN PALISANO
25. A GUIDE TO ETIQUETTE AND COMPORTMENT FOR THE SISTERS OF HENLEY HOUSE – EMILY B. CATANEO
26. THE RIGHT THING – JACK KETCHUM
27. PASSING AFFLICTION – PATRICK O’NEILL
28. THE GREAT PITY – GARY A. BRAUNBECK