Run For Your Life

Bored with himself, his life, and everything in his imaginable future, Reed dared himself to appear on a haunted house reality show. The kitchen was a slaughterhouse. He had to stick his hand in a goat's skull filled with maggots. He nearly pissed himself with fright on national TV.

He said he wanted to change his life. Now, in the days after his experience, it seems that his wish might be coming true--but not quite in the way he'd anticipated.

Run For Your Life: A story about finding yourself with the help of someone you've never met.

This 9,700-word story originally appeared in Shousetsu Bang Bang.