Running Wild Novella Anthology Volume 9 Book 1 - by Henry Whittlesey & David Vonderheide & Izaskun Gracia Quintana (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

EDGE On parent-teacher conference day, in an urban context of regular kidnappings and violence, a boy learns that his estranged, but kind-hearted father has returned and would like to meet him secretly after school. The anxious boy has been warned about this possibility. When his teacher hears about the father's plan, it prompts her to hide the boy in her classroom. The boy's father searches for his son at dismissal and then goes to the principal. Together they head to the teacher's classroom... THE KITE FLYER AT CHIMERA ISLAND is a magical realism tale of two brothers who have been banished to a prison island to collect a mysterious substance called the Light. Memory, myth, and the powerful binding force of family come together in this dark yet touching story. THE NECROMANCER It's Valentine's Day and Silver Nightbrace's parents are coming to dinner, expecting to meet the suitor Silver has dutifully told them of in her letters home. Unfortunately, Silver doesn't actually have a suitor. On her break at the apothecary, where she works as a barista, she decides to raise a boyfriend from the dead. Necromancy can't be that hard, right? TESTIMONIES AFTER THE FIRE In a town governed by customs and not spoken laws that go back centuries, numerous testimonies narrate a vile act taken place against one of the residents and the terribly violent and tragic response that, more than teaching a lesson, destroys the residents' lives forever. Crossing the limits of reality and fiction, this choral narration is born as a scathing metaphor of freedom and coexistence, where nothing or nobody is what it seems and where the truth has as many faces as voices claim to possess it. THE SPIDER AND THE BIRDHOUSE The author wrote The Spider and the Birdhouse sleepily not knowing what I was dreaming. I found it years later and understood it, having realized the dream. THINGS UNRECKONED When an ice-mining transport in the outer reaches of the known universe stumbles across another ship of its same kind, they detect abnormal patterns in the temperature and humidity measurements that might indicate a living organism on the abandoned vessel. Strange: this other transport had been lost decades ago, and all crew were presumed deceased. When strange patterns begin to manifest on their own ship, affecting the very fabric of all things great and small, a living nightmare about forces not understood by humankind unfolds.

About the Author

Henry Whittlesey is a writer, translator and editor. He co-founded and edits perypatetik, an international aesthetic project dedicated to the potential of an alternative perspective based on process-oriented production in harmony with nature. His work has been published in journals, magazines and books such as *Comparative Literature and Culture (at Purdue University)*, *Two Lines World Writing in Translation (Vol. 17)*, *Brooklyn Rail* and many others. He is also the co-author of *Peripatetic Alterity*, the aesthetic ideology for the perypatetik project. David Vonderheide is a writer and medical school student at the University of Pennsylvania whose work has been featured in Every Day Fiction and the Colored Lens. Izaskun Gracia Quintana (Bilbao (Spain), 1977, studied Basque Philology and Graphic Design, among others. She works as a freelance translator, proofreader, editor and graphic designer and she writes articles as well as literary criticism for various media. She was editor and co-founder of the poetry publishing-house Masmé dula and she lives in Berlin (Germany) since 2011. Krista Beucler is originally from Colorado and currently pursuing an MFA in creative writing from Drexel University. Krista is a winner of the Julia Peterkin award, and her creative work has been published in *Kelp Journal*, *Mulberry Literary*, and *South 85 Journal, * among others. James Cato is an MFA candidate at the Iowa Writer's Workshop, and his chapbook " Becoming Roadkill" is now available from Red Bird Chapbooks. James and David have been writing together for years with work featured in Andromeda Spaceways and other venues and have known one another since the ages of three and four. Joel's artistic and professional areas of interest are in neurological and phenomenological causes for the intersection of mysticism and existentialism within consciousness. Joel spends most weekends hiking and enjoying the outdoors with his wife and children. He is passionate about travel and exploring new cultures as well as new ways of being. Dedicated to his darling wife Emily, without whom nothing that he dreamed would be real, and nothing real would make him dream. Eric St. Pierre is an author, expressionist painter, and songwriter who lives and creates in New Orleans, LA.