Palindrome Hannah
by Michael Bailey





ABOUT THE BOOK

Michael Bailey brilliantly blends horror and drama, art and pop, wit and mystery in this series of five dark, intertwined tales. With homage to Stephen King, David Mitchell, and Edgar Allen Poe, Bailey beats his own backward path into the deep dark woods of the human psyche and turns everything upside down. Enter a cruel "palindrome" world: a strangely symmetrical place where disturbing incidents displace the rain-saturated Mayberry calm of contemporary suburban Seattle. A young father fights his suicidal urges. A failing marriage of two entirely unlikable people begins to unravel. An old man given to bouts of mental "whiteness" remembers the cruelty of the orphanage where he spent his childhood and how the "whiteness" began. A psychiatrist strives to understand a mental patient whose several uncanny abilities suggest something other-worldly. A school bully and the gang of misfits he tortures take a playground war farther and farther... A hidden sixth story, told in reverse and interwoven into the others, uncovers the sad life of the "palindrome" child Hannah and her struggling teenage mother.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Michael Bailey lives in California with his wife Kimberly. He is currently writing his second novel of literary horror and a collection of short stories. In his spare time he wanders into other creative realms by writing prose poetry, drawing black-and-white sketches, unloading his mind in ponderous blogs, editing a short-run literary publication, and inking an atrocious series of stick figure comics.