Runaway

Roseville to Kansas City, Jamaica Plains to Lubbock, the characters in Runaway find new lives. These exciting stories find transformation via spirit, heart, loss, hope and emptiness. Luanne Smith, Michael Gills, and Lee Zacharias have crafted a collection that is at once devastating and utterly magical. This is a collection to be read and re-read, shared in writing workshops and savored.



—Karen Salyer McElmurray, Wanting Radiance



Contributors:



“Neighbor Boys and Cousins” by Jodi Angel

“Kansas” by Emily Chiles

“Ritual” by Albert Aden

“Running Toward Away” by Richard Jay Goldstein

“If That Isn’t a Sign From God, Then I Don’t Know What Is” by Philen Bradford

“Sugar” by Misty Skaggs

“The Whiskey Monkey” by Maureen O’Brien

“Vivian Delmar” by Louise Marberg

“Nothing to Light Our Way” by Emily Hoover

“Daphne: The Aspen Version” by Erica Olsen

“Reapers” by Jeffrey Byrem

“Reading Herzog” by Michael Simpson

“Iris with Mermaids” by Deborah Johnstone

“Sioux Falls, South Dakota” by Marisol Cortez

“Sever” by K.B. Carle

“Lubbock 1974” by Bobby Horecka

“Running in Circles” by Merrill Gray

“Under the Grapefruit Tree” by Shelbi Carpenter

“Willie’s Crucifixion” by Rick Campbell

“The Thing” by Lou Morrison

“The Anchor Song” by Maurice Ruffin

“After We’re Gone” by Brett Riley

“Xmas, Jamaica Plain” by Melanie Rae Thon

“The House of Unintelligible Omens” by Randall Watson

“The Fishing Dog” by Bonnie Jo Campbell