Running Wild Novella Anthology, Volume 7 Book 1

by Zalinger, Jason Matthew; Travers, A. G.; Carmony, Russell; Naranjo, Ian

• ISBN13: 9781955062657
• ISBN10: 195506265X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2023-09-01
• Publisher: Running Wild Press

Summary

95 North by Jason Matthew Zalinger Myron Oygold has returned home after a tumultuous and toxic relationship with the love of his life. Now in therapy, he recounts how it all began. 95 North explores how we make sense of our decisions in the aftermath of love gone wrong. 

The Thing in Violet Springs by A. G. Travers When a young family travels into the cold desolate woods of Violet Springs, they are confronted by a vicious monster hell-bent on stalking, catching, and devouring them. Their only hope is to escape the woods before sundown, but with no car, no phones, and the storm of the century brewing, escape from Violet Springs seems further and further out of reach.

James and the Transparent Nudist by Ian Naranjo James is a film critic married to a beautiful man named Sam. His life is fairly normal, until one day Sam changes. Sam is a biochemist, and he's become completely transparent... Literally!

Graffertiti by Russell Carmony An artist who goes by the pseudonym TM Flâneur falls for Nina, a server at a neighborhood café, and paints their story in murals across New York City. 

Author Biography

As featured in Forbes, Lisa Diane Kastner is the Founder and Executive Editor of Running Wild Press. She’s been a writer and editor for more than twenty years. She has her MFA in Creative Writing with concentrations in Fiction and Nonfiction from Fairfield University, her MBA from Pennsylvania State University, her undergraduate from Drexel University, and is also an alumni of Moorestown Friends Upper School. Lisa began Running Wild with the belief that we can change the world through story. C. H. Rosenberg is a policy wonk, armchair economist, and real-life world traveler who has not actually visited any of the worlds mentioned in this novella—yet. Rosenberg's early career was spent fighting in the trenches of Southern California's local politics and they currently work at one of D.C.'s many alphabet soup think tanks, brainstorming all sorts of amazing ways to save the planet. Jodie Keenan is a graduate of Maine College of Art who has spent the past decade meandering the spookiest backroads of New England in her career as a professional photographer and meeting very interesting people in her passion for roller derby. She frequently picks up hitchhikers; however, to the best of her knowledge, none have been undead. Over the last twelve years, A.G. Travers has written four novels, six novellas, and over three hundred and fifty poems. She is known for her contributions to Verse Magazine, the Red Ogre Review, and the Antithesis Journal. Currently, A.G. Travers is writing her fifth novel and studying education and creative writing at the University of South Australia. Russell Carmony is a fiction and essay writer from New York City. His work has appeared in The Painted Bride Quarterly, Eclectica Magazine, OpenDemocracy.net, The Wild Roof Journal, ZIN Daily, and [sub]liminal. Ian Naranjo was born in Santa Fe, NM. His first stories were Godzilla and Whinnie the Pooh crossovers which he envisioned on the playground when he was six years old. Since then he's received a Bachelor's degree in Media Arts with a Minor in English from the University of New Mexico, and has even been published in Meat for Tea: The Valley Review, The Write Launch, and The Bookends Review. He hopes anyone reading this has a wonderful rest of their day and keeps following their dreams, because everyone needs a dream!

Table of Contents

C O N T E N T S 95 NORTH 1 by Jason Matthew Zalinger THE THING IN VIOLET SPRINGS 119 By A.G. TRAVERS JAMES AND THE TRANSPARENT NUDIST 291 By Ian Naranjo GRAFFERTITI 391 By Russell Carmony Biographies 491 About Running Wild Press 493