An eclectic collection of stories that will keep you turning the page. With stories that span styles, genres, and voices. Each one will keep you engaged.Edited by Cecile Sarruf, the authors include Hailey Piper, Dawn DeAnna Wilson, Magaly Garcia, Susan Breall, VT Dorchester, Susan Breall, Robert Allen Lupton, Paul Attmore, Anthony Peters, Andrew Adams, Monique Gagnon German, Jason Zeitler, Gemma L. Brook, Audra Supplee, Lorna Walsh, Debby Huvaere, Desiree Kannel, Molly Byrne, Jenn Powers, Gary Kidney, Sarah Kaminski, Ed Burke, Anastasia Jill, Abdullah Aljumah.The latest in our annual anthology options.

Our editor scoured the planet to find the most engaging, fun, varied stories to entertain you. Then he worked night and day with the authors to shine these little bits of narrative to make sure that the results were great stories, great writing, that don't fit neatly in a box.

Our editor declared these novellas the best of the best among this collection. If you must only pick up one book of this volume, then this is the one to choose. Although, in all fairness, they are all pretty amazing. Don't choose. Get them all.

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.

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.

American Cycle, a sequence of long poems inspired by our folklore and past, was written over forty-seven years. Its themes are love, local mythology, history, justice, memory, accomplishment, time. "The books are extraordinary, sustained explosions of authentic American language and energy. Each is entirely different from the others in style, voice, form and narrative content; each so rich in imagery and nuance and texture and event and so finely crafted. . . " —Paul Williams, author of Bob Dylan: Performing Artist.American Cycle holds Spanish words loaned from Old California, rough colloquialisms in Paul Bunyan, the power of African-American vernacular English in John Henry, bare oratory in Chief Joseph, old west phrases in Wyatt Earp, circus ballyhoo in P. T. Barnum, aviation jargon in Amelia Earhart, backwoods dialect in Blue Ridge. As Walt Whitman says, "I hear America singing, the varied carols. . .”

In Part 2, a smattering of the novellas are a young Irishman's escapades as he experiences that the local legend isn't really a legend in The Washerwoman; help a young orphan find her biological parents and unearth her family's secrets in Looking for Home; experience the lives of a prisoner and his torturer in The Inquisitor; find out what Horatio really thinks of Hamlet in Horatio; and check out the follow up to Newly Minted Wings and salty French Fries in You Want Me to Clean What?

When all of society is privatized, profitable crimes become legalized while empathy is banned. How far will people go to connect? Could their defiance lead to revolution? These are the underlying questions within this novella collection.

I'm shaking my head at the little girl who thought she could control the story. She doesn't understand that you can't control the story, the story controls you.At twenty, Liza still sleeps with the lights on. In this alcohol fueled narrative, filled with tattoos, family lore and short biographies, Dube shares her raw and graphic coming of age tale. This is a story about ink, on the page and on skin. The Newly Tattooed's Guide to Aftercare is the love story you never saw coming and only now realize you need.

Before you pick up Book 3, please tell us you've already read Book 1 and Book 2. Yes? Good. No? No. Why not? They will only make you feel like you've never felt before. Introduce you to worlds you never knew existed. And make you more joyful than you thought possible. Why? Because these are great stories and great writing that simply do not fit neatly in a box.