Download or read book Running Wild Novella Anthology Volume 5 written by Riva Riley and published by Running Wild, LLC. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Other People's Children - Jacob Adelman retired from a high-powered career to his greatest philanthropic effort: the conservation of the great Smoky Mountains. A flyer requesting botany samples introduces him to Lisa, an elementary school BMX rider, who delivers rare plants for his gardens. The joy he finds in mentoring Lisa and her crew is threatened by the sudden arrival of his two grandchildren. The older child's violent eruptions and destructive ways force Adelman to confront his bitter past and, after a death-run down the mountain that Lisa barely survives, Adelman must decide between redemption and peace. Crevices of Frost is a collection of stories about those who live around the Sea of Mortla, a sub-arctic body of water that holds orcas, lost compasses, and the supernatural. Two towns resting on opposite sides of the sea deal with the cold in different ways, rarely interacting with each other except for a postman who doesn't belong and a native radio spokesperson who needs answers. Sharing similar goals, they work together to find a group of whale poachers.Underwater Eyes Will is depressed and moves to Los Angeles to change his life.

Download or read book Running Wild Novella Anthology Volume 5 written by Sarah Russell and published by Running Wild, LLC. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ballerina Swan Lake Mobile Homes Country Club Motel: Wanda, a single woman in her early fifties, is the owner of the motel at the base of a water-starved mountain. She' s hardened by circumstance, morally honest, outspoken, and stuck in her life. When she rescues a stray pit bull, and then a defiant teenage girl, Wanda' s life will never be the same.Beyond the Door of Darkness: NYPD officer, Larry Petals, couldn' t cope with being a cop anymore after the morning of September 11th, 2001. After leaving the force and retreating to his hometown on Long Island without many options, he became a Private Investigator. Everything had become kind of normal... until his phone rang.Soap:A twisted love-story in a stark and surreal world, "Soap" is at once a journey, a mystery, and a psychological puzzle where Eliza must find herself.

Download or read book Running Wild Novella Anthology Volume 4 Book 2 written by Barbara Lockwood and published by Running Wild, LLC. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever craved stories that you can read easily in a day? Ones that will transport you to worlds and make you say, "Now that was damn great." If you answered yes, then this is the anthology for you. Pick up Running Wild Novella Anthology Volume 4, Books 1 and 2 to experience some of the best novellas available from 2020.

Download or read book Running Wild Novella Anthology Volume 4 Book 1 written by Peter Wright and published by Running Wild, LLC. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 1035 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fantastic anthology of novellas that don't fit neatly in a box. Includes The Witch Girl and the Wobbly by Michael Cooney, Please Listen Carefully As Our Options Have Changed by Eric Aldrich, Hearts In the Dark by Christopher Woods, Allure by Ed Burke, Eternal Spring by Cora Tate, Shipped Off by Gordon Blitz, and Shangri La by Mark Williams.

Download or read book Running Wild Novella Anthology Volume 3 Book 1 written by Christa M. Miller and published by Running Wild, LLC. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Astral Plane by Kate AldridgeTemplate for a Story of Food, Sex & (Improbable) Restitution by Joe DaviesThe Twenty and One Nights by Barbara de la CuestaThe Mountain by Taylor DentonThe Not-So-Chinese Wedding by Dorie LaRueThe Patriot by Timothy P LynchIt May Have Been a Dream, It Might Just Be My Life by Kate MacdonaldResurrection Blues and Queen of Sheba by Christa M MillerSweet Gulf by C. R. ResetaritsI Was a Teenage Popstar and I Lost It All by Sean M SmithBroken Soul to Broken Soul by Audra SuppleeAll Right, Be Safe by Talia TuckerWhat the Blood Tells You to Be by Kami D WesthoffTriggerfish 1-2 by Ben B WhiteThirty Seconds to Kill by Peter A Wright

Download or read book Running Wild Novella Anthology Volume 7 written by Jason Matthew Zalinger and published by Running Wild, LLC. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Running Wild Anthology of Stories written by Benjamin B. White and published by Running Wild, LLC. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the fifth year in a row, Running Wild Press brings together fantastic stories from well-established to up-and-coming authors to bring you the best cross genre stories that don't fit neatly in a box. This collection is comprised of 39 stories that arrived at Running Wild Press from all over the world from Hawaii to India, from Indiana to Scotland, and represents an eclectic gathering of storytelling talent. With twists and turns, these stories will take you through shared - and unshared - experiences of human endeavors, possibilities, impossibilities, and imagination.

Download or read book Running Wild Novella Anthology Volume 8 written by James Damis and published by Running Wild, LLC. This book was released on 2025-05-05 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sweet Willie Gold Has the BluesAfter a car accident, William Goldman, a nice middle aged married man wakes from a coma to find that he is a musical savant, able to play note for note every blues harmonica song he has ever heard. Is his newfound ability a blessing or a burden? Music or marriage, family or fame, he struggles to answer what he really wants out of his life.Just You WaitJust You Wait, a contemporary, literary novella, tells the story of Jasmine Whittow, an intelligent young woman and an only child growing up in privileged familial circumstances. Eventually she meets and lives with Pietro, an Italian moving to London to join her there, she learning how easily life, even one of her own choosing, may lead many astray, before falling in love with someone else she meets in Cornwall.The Day the Sun StoppedChristine wakes to find herself on a street lined with houses— all identical. Even more disconcerting, she discovers that there' s a family that claims to be Christine' s— a family with their own secrets.Bit by bit, Christine remembers her past life— and wonders if she made a terrible mistake. The question is: is it even possible to return? And what would returning home mean?Filial SojournSummoned by a phone call from a man telling him his long-estranged father is in his last days, Rutherford McAndrew drives deep into the upstate boondocks to see him before the end. Instead of impending death, he finds his father the subject of an unsettling clinical experiment and himself drawn in as an unwilling participant. As he insidiously becomes entangled in the dark intentions of the strange psychiatric program, his opportunities to leave diminish.

Download or read book Running Wild Novella Anthology Volume 1 written by Lisa Diane Kastner and published by Running Wild, LLC. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow these fantastic stories of revenge, timetravel, alternate universes, a mysterious train ride, and body augmentation to restart a woman's life. They will take you to new worlds and amazing stories.

Download or read book Running Wild Novella Anthology Volume 8 written by Stephen J. Kimber and published by Running Wild, LLC. This book was released on 2025-09-08 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tragic Plight of E.G.: A Clinical Case Report“ The Tragic Plight of E.G.: A Clinical Case Report” is a day-by-day account of an ill-fated patient who is hospitalized for a mysterious illness. He finds himself in the care of a team of top-notch doctors, nurses, social workers, and therapists. Even so, the patient' s condition continues to deteriorate, forcing this modern medical establishment to grapple with what it really means to “ do no harm.” The Liberation of Jacob Novak a NovellaThe Liberation of Jacob Novak tells the story of a lonely, aimless young man, trapped in a virtual world. He causes a fatal accident and must pay the price. In prison, Jacob feels valued, gains self-confidence, even falls in love. After serving time, he finds his own way in the world. At last, he is free. Sgt Katrina Dunn, a.k.a. Angela Parker & the Games They PlayAngela Parker, who isn' t your average 17 year old, but who is?, has her run of Alien Quest hijacked by a man who looks, curiously, like her Uncle Reggie. The Uncle Reggie clone invites Ange to play an innovative and sensorily immersive kind of game, one that involves adopting an avatar role where you become someone frighteningly like yourself in a world that rapidly goes crazy. As Ashlie Sweet, Angela Parker finds herself fighting villains that look uncommonly like today' s politicians in a small U.S. town. Everything apparently normal in this small town rapidly goes belly up: there are race riots, detention-centres, murder, and that's just in the first week. What' s more &– with her game based boyfriend Norman Mené &– she discovers they're in a game within a game and that they (their real theys back in Nottingham U.K. and Sydney, Australia and all the other places where the game players come from) are being data mined. The stakes aren' t just in winning or losing a game. Maybe the fate of the free world hangs in the balance.Talk about doing a girl' s head in.

Download or read book Something is Better Than Nothing written by Alicia Delory and published by Running Wild, LLC. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I dare you to open Alicia Delory's 'Something is Better than Nothing' and then try to put it down. This is a page-turning narrative that exposes physical and emotional shrapnel, relayed with un!inching and poetic honesty. Through her woven re!ection on loving a veteran and mourning the loss of her father, Delory attains a rare and sharp beauty, laced with humor and hard-won wisdom." - SONYA HUBER, AUTHOR OF PAIN WOMAN TAKES YOUR KEYS"This stunning memoir relates a rarely heard account of a wife surviving her army husband's return from Afghanistan with severe PTSD. Their story ofperseverance, anger, violence, and a yearning for understanding, are interspersed with gripping scenes from Delory's difficult childhood. Told with searing frankness, dark humor, and penetrating insight, here is a riveting true story of how #erce honesty and enduring love can heal immeasurable challenges. " - EUGENIA KIM, AUTHOR OF THE KINSHIP OF SECRETS"Alicia Delory bleeds through the page in this stunning, emotional memoir. She does so effortlessly, without seeking pity or needing to apologize. What she creates is a blunt, honest, and at times heart-wrenching look at millennial marriage." -- REUBEN "TIHI" HAYSLETT, AUTHOR OF DARK CORNERS, BEST OF 2019 ======

Download or read book Escape Route written by Elan Barnehama and published by Running Wild, LLC. This book was released on 2022-05-04 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elan Barnehama has given us a powerful coming of age story set against the tumult of the 1960s, the War in Vietnam, and the power of memory and Jewish identity in a family of Holocaust survivors. This is a beautifully rendered novel, populated by unforgettable characters in an unforgettable time. Barnehama is a literary craftsman at the top of his game. Superb.-- Frye Gaillard, author of A Hard Rain: America in the 1960s, an NPR Great Read 2018The novel is totally charming, completely engrossing, moving, real. I love those characters- Zach, because of his way of throwing out those witty remarks and he has so much heart and courage. And Samm, because she is so cool and holy smokes, if I could only have been anything like her at that age. And the grandfather, of course."-- Kiki Smith, Professor of Theatre, Smith College, Obie Award winner for Costume DesignWith nearly incandescent prose, Barnehama deftly stitches the reader's heart to his glowing characters, then gently tugs and tugs and tugs— Marvin J. Wolf, author of Abandoned In Hell, and They Were Soldiers, also a motion picture.

Download or read book The Many Deaths of Cole Parker written by Lisa D. Kastner and published by Running Wild, LLC. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each of his killers are different people, yet they are equally relentless in their desire to end his life. Each time Cole dies, his psyche is somehow transported into a new reality. Sometimes the reality is similar to his previous life, and other times it is shockingly different. And each time, the cycle of cat and mouse begins anew.

Download or read book The Re Remembered written by Dwight Wilson and published by Running Wild, LLC. This book was released on 2022-05-04 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enthralling collection of short stories based on Dwight's own family history. He takes us through the lives of African Americans and Native Americans in the early parts of the United States. A must read.

Download or read book Running Wild Novella Anthology Volume 8 Book 1 written by Lisa Kastner and published by . This book was released on 2024-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthology of fantastic novellas

Download or read book Running Wild Novella Anthology Volume 8 Book 2 written by Lisa Kastner and published by Running Wild Press. This book was released on 2024-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthology of fantastic novellas

Download or read book Running Wild Novella Anthology Volume 3 written by Christa Miller and published by Running Wild Press. This book was released on 2019-12 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Astral Plane by Kate Aldridge Template for a Story of Food, Sex & (Improbable) Restitution by Joe Davies The Twenty and One Nights by Barbara de la Cuesta The Mountain by Taylor Denton The Not-So-Chinese Wedding by Dorie LaRue The Patriot by Timothy P Lynch It May Have Been a Dream, It Might Just Be My Life by Kate Macdonald Resurrection Blues and Queen of Sheba by Christa M Miller Sweet Gulf by C. R. Resetarits I Was a Teenage Popstar and I Lost It All by Sean M Smith Broken Soul to Broken Soul by Audra Supplee All Right, Be Safe by Talia Tucker What the Blood Tells You to Be by Kami D Westhoff Triggerfish 1-2 by Ben B White Thirty Seconds to Kill by Peter A Wright