Dear Voice in My Head:
I am grateful for this opportunity to update you on your quite Frankly flagrant attempts to cause insanity. Below, please find some exciting news regarding the achievements made possible by the investment you've made of constantly blathering on and on about weird cocky-doody, especially in my skull, where Voices such as yours are needed most.
Specifically, Michael Bailey has announced the final Table of Contents for the upcoming CHIRAL MAD 3. I have been lucky enough to appear in CHIRAL MAD 1 AND 2, and it is an incredible honor to show up in this here tome, bound to be heavier than the phone book and way more useful (unless prank calling is your thing, which would be very 80's, since nowadays everyone can see who just called them. Prank Calls, like Ancient Greece, had a Golden Age . . . Also, I would recommend not prank calling anybody, it's not cool, and it was done to death in Scream (Wes Craven RIP).
Two of my poems (And I didn't even know I wrote poetry, honest! But now that I do, I might make some more, perhaps a slim volume of curses and prognostications, or a memoir of my life as a sleeping person) will appear alongside a list that makes the cast of members who were in and out of John Mayall's Bluesbreakers pale by comparison.
The following is a direct communication from Michael
on CHIRAL MAD 3:
Jack Ketchum takes the final spot in CHIRAL MAD 3 with a new story called "Seconds." His fiction can be found in all three volumes of CHIRAL MAD! Feel free to share as you wish. The anthology will also contain over 40 illustrations by Glenn Chadbourne, such as the picture at the top of this post.
This is the final line-up:
FICTION:
Gene O'Neill - "3-Dot People"
Ramsey Campbell - "Know Your Code"
Jessica May Lin - "Red Runner vs. The Surgeon, Issue 18"
Paul Michael Anderson- "The Agonizing Guilt of Relief (Last Days of a Ready-Made Victim)"
Stephen King - "The Last Rung on the Ladder"
Richard Thomas - "The Offering on the Hill"
Jason V Brock - "Windows, Mirrors, Doors"
Mercedes Murdock Yardley - "The Dead Collection"
Damien Angelica Walters - "The Whipping Girls"
Scott Edelman - "That Perilous Stuff" (novelette)
Erinn Kemper - "A Flash of Red"
Josh Malerman- "The Bigger Bedroom"
Gary A. Braunbeck - "Silver Thread, Hammer Ring" (novelette)
Hal Bodner - "A Rift in Reflection"
Emily Cataneo - "The Black Crow of Boddinstraße"
Mort Castle - "Prayer"
Max Booth III - "Blood Dust"
Meghan Arcuri-Moran - "Watch Me"
Richard Chizmar - "The Poetry of Life"
Eric J. Guignard - "Those Who Watch from on High"
Jack Ketchum - "Seconds"
POETRY:
Elizabeth Massie - "Black River #1" and "Black River #2"
Bruce Boston - "Beyond Symmetry" and "Reflecting on Reflections"
Erik T. Johnson - "Whisper #1 (A Warning)" and "Whisper #2 (A Prophecy)"
Marge Simon - "Mirror Image" and "Reflections through the Raven's Eye"
Stephanie M. Wytovich - "Put Me to Dream" and "Welcome Home
Ciarán Parkes - "The Speed of Sound" and "Recognizing Trees"
Jonathan Balog - "Insomnia in Reverse" and "Fail-safe"
P. Gardner Goldsmith - "Fair" and "Promise"
Rose Blackthorn - "Arbitration" and "Prescience"
Sydney Leigh - "Folie à Deux" and "Folie à Plusieurs"
I am grateful for this opportunity to update you on your quite Frankly flagrant attempts to cause insanity. Below, please find some exciting news regarding the achievements made possible by the investment you've made of constantly blathering on and on about weird cocky-doody, especially in my skull, where Voices such as yours are needed most.
Specifically, Michael Bailey has announced the final Table of Contents for the upcoming CHIRAL MAD 3. I have been lucky enough to appear in CHIRAL MAD 1 AND 2, and it is an incredible honor to show up in this here tome, bound to be heavier than the phone book and way more useful (unless prank calling is your thing, which would be very 80's, since nowadays everyone can see who just called them. Prank Calls, like Ancient Greece, had a Golden Age . . . Also, I would recommend not prank calling anybody, it's not cool, and it was done to death in Scream (Wes Craven RIP).
Two of my poems (And I didn't even know I wrote poetry, honest! But now that I do, I might make some more, perhaps a slim volume of curses and prognostications, or a memoir of my life as a sleeping person) will appear alongside a list that makes the cast of members who were in and out of John Mayall's Bluesbreakers pale by comparison.
The following is a direct communication from Michael
on CHIRAL MAD 3:
Jack Ketchum takes the final spot in CHIRAL MAD 3 with a new story called "Seconds." His fiction can be found in all three volumes of CHIRAL MAD! Feel free to share as you wish. The anthology will also contain over 40 illustrations by Glenn Chadbourne, such as the picture at the top of this post.
This is the final line-up:
FICTION:
Gene O'Neill - "3-Dot People"
Ramsey Campbell - "Know Your Code"
Jessica May Lin - "Red Runner vs. The Surgeon, Issue 18"
Paul Michael Anderson- "The Agonizing Guilt of Relief (Last Days of a Ready-Made Victim)"
Stephen King - "The Last Rung on the Ladder"
Richard Thomas - "The Offering on the Hill"
Jason V Brock - "Windows, Mirrors, Doors"
Mercedes Murdock Yardley - "The Dead Collection"
Damien Angelica Walters - "The Whipping Girls"
Scott Edelman - "That Perilous Stuff" (novelette)
Erinn Kemper - "A Flash of Red"
Josh Malerman- "The Bigger Bedroom"
Gary A. Braunbeck - "Silver Thread, Hammer Ring" (novelette)
Hal Bodner - "A Rift in Reflection"
Emily Cataneo - "The Black Crow of Boddinstraße"
Mort Castle - "Prayer"
Max Booth III - "Blood Dust"
Meghan Arcuri-Moran - "Watch Me"
Richard Chizmar - "The Poetry of Life"
Eric J. Guignard - "Those Who Watch from on High"
Jack Ketchum - "Seconds"
POETRY:
Elizabeth Massie - "Black River #1" and "Black River #2"
Bruce Boston - "Beyond Symmetry" and "Reflecting on Reflections"
Erik T. Johnson - "Whisper #1 (A Warning)" and "Whisper #2 (A Prophecy)"
Marge Simon - "Mirror Image" and "Reflections through the Raven's Eye"
Stephanie M. Wytovich - "Put Me to Dream" and "Welcome Home
Ciarán Parkes - "The Speed of Sound" and "Recognizing Trees"
Jonathan Balog - "Insomnia in Reverse" and "Fail-safe"
P. Gardner Goldsmith - "Fair" and "Promise"
Rose Blackthorn - "Arbitration" and "Prescience"
Sydney Leigh - "Folie à Deux" and "Folie à Plusieurs"
