Written backwards okt 2020 (5 Ergebnisse)

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A small collection of dark science fiction by Bram Stoker Award-winning author Michael Bailey. Includes 'Darkroom' and 'SAD Face' (novelettes), and 'Fade to Black' (short story).DARKROOM: After living most of her life blindfolded, for fear of what she might see, Grace shifts though time in a series of strange experiments involving old-fashioned black-and-white photography in order to create a flipbook of her father aging in reverse. Near completion of her project, and no longer able to go through with it on her own, she brings along her likewise blindfolded and temporarily deafened sister, for fear of what they might also hear in their travels, and together they take snapshots, wandering their childhood home, hand-in-hand, albeit with added disabilities to protect them from that which doesn't hide so well in the past. The undeveloped, they soon discover, what they'd forgotten of their troubled youth, is perhaps more frightening than what they later develop in the darkroom. SAD FACE: Yuliya dons a prosthetic face designed to help her cope with Social Anxiety Disorder, the essential oil infused mask not only disguising her expression, but the wet city stench as it soothes. Time, it can only stop when someone takes a photo, and that's what they did, whoever made it; they took her picture and made her a mask to hide behind whenever social phobia bullied her. A dead-face: expressionless, eyes only visible through open sockets, mouth slightly parted; the way she imagined she'd look the day she died. And now, whenever someone sees her, or stares at her, wearing her Yuliya mask, they are looking at her past. Yet behind her SAD face, she sometimes finds confidence, until she takes it off to uncover the woman hiding beneath. FADE TO BLACK: A bonus short story that explores optophobia, the fear of opening one's eyes.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The sick imagination of Michael Bailey brings you thirteen dark poems and thirteen tales of the macabre [ and some bonus content ] that will make you think twice before turning your room dark for the night. A young woman chews her fingernails raw, unable to stop; a television set dangles from an apartment complex window; a large chest is found containing only a banded bouquet of wilted flowers; a stitched bear named Thatch bleeds at the neck, his stuffing torn out; a man wakes up duct-taped to a mammoth wooden chair. Between writing the novels PALINDROME HANNAH and PHOENIX ROSE, Michael Bailey penned and published a number of 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 are reprinted here, while others are completely original to this collection, Once you crack the spine, there's no going back. This second edition contains a bonus script and graphic adaptation of 'Plasty,' a collaboration with artist L.A. Spooner, and three previously unpublished flash fiction pieces. Spooner, L A (illustrator).…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 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 often interchangeable .In Palindrome Hannah, the debut novel by Michael Bailey, characters influence each other through arrangements of involuntary happenstance, forced to face the dark, unfortunate events in their lives and question coincidence.A segmented story of a mother and daughter intertwines the others in this composite novel. This hidden story, assembled from five separate narratives, introduces Hannah, the unique child with a palindromic name, and her young mother.With five stories heading one direction, and Hannah traveling the opposite, a greater story begins to unfold.A puzzle within a puzzle . Bateson, Michael Ian (illustrator).…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Written Backwards presents The Impossible Weight of Life, a painfully autobiographical collection of speculative fiction and poetry by Michael Bailey, author of previous collections such as Scales and Petals, Inkblots and Blood Spots, and Oversight. This time around, after an imbalanced world temporarily destroyed his vestibular system and flipped life upside-down (thanks to an extended bout of a strange condition called Bilateral Loss of Labyrinthine Function ), literally burned to the ground during California wildfires, then became threatened after rising from the ashes by acts of school violence, a flood, further fire evacuations, prolonged power outages, multiple uprootings, social injustice, political unrest, and finally a global pandemic, he decided it's time to bend the boundaries of the written word once more, in case, you know, the world rolls itself off the giant scale that balances life and death to end things once and for all.This collection contains Bram Stoker Award-nominated short stories such as 'I Will Be the Reflection Until the End' and 'Time Is a Face on the Water,' but also never-before-published mind-benders created during his 'highly-medicated' state of recovery, including a story about memory loss called 'Fragments of Br_an,' (composed on a typewriter that no longer exists, now ash), 'Emergence of the Colorless,' a statement about the beginning of the end of prejudice, and the far future 'Oll Korrect,' in which artificial intelligence is used to explore humankind. As for poetry, there are favorites such as 'Loosed Earth' and 'Shades of Red,' but many new poems to help with balance, including 'Hurt People Hurt People,' 'Night Rainbows,' and 'Paper Earth.'13 stories. 13 poems. Time to crack the spine once more and see what kind of darkness and truths seep out . …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Michael Bailey returns to the strange town of Brenden, Washington to expand the events of Palindrome Hannah. A family is torn apart after a horse foaling goes terribly wrong; a sickly man recounts getting mauled by his neighbor's dog; an undead priest is reborn into the world over a hundred years after his untimely death; two brothers run for their lives through a dead field of wheat. Holding all this together is a young boy named Todd, whose survival pivots on the balance of life and death, and a deranged mental patient with a burnt rose tattoo, whose reality is paradoxical. While his previous novel may have left you questioning coincidence, Phoenix Rose will leave you questioning your very own existence.…