Running Wild
Running Wild Anthology of Stories:
Volume 1
By Various Authors: Sarah Smith Ducksworth, Elaine Crauder, Luanne
Smith, Keith R. Fentonmiller, Lisa Montagne, Ann Stolinsky, A.J. O’Connell,
Aimee LaBrie, Kristan Campbell, Jack Hillman, Bill Scruggs, Joshua Hedges and
Gary Zenker
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GENRE: Fiction, Non-Fiction,
Poetry (narrative)
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This gripping collection of stories - fiction, nonfiction, and
narrative poem - will make your imagination run wild! Featuring stories by Sarah
Smith Ducksworth, Elaine Crauder, Luanne Smith, Keith R. Fentonmiller, Lisa
Montagne, Ann Stolinsky, A.J. O’Connell, Aimee LaBrie, Kristan Campbell, Jack
Hillman, Bill Scruggs, Joshua Hedges, Gary Zenker. You will travel alternative
planets, run away away like teens in search of adventure, solve a murderous
mystery, come to grips with your fears, and much more.
“Susan winks at me as she says to her mother, “We’re going
to the playground. We’ll be back in a couple of hours.” “Don’t be too late. It
looks like rain. Come home at the first sign of drops, OK my girls?” Her mother
gathers us in an embrace. Her mother is tall and massive. I’ve heard people
call her “zaftig.” Her many folds of skin almost choke me as she puts her fat
over my face. I kiss her face as soon as I can breathe again. I look at Susan,
her blue eyes shine, her mouth pursed in a conspiratorial smile. Her copper red
hair bounces as she shakes her head, and puts her finger to her lips. She cocks
her head into her mother’s plump side as she mouths, “don’t tell.” Susan’s my
friend, my best friend. I know she’s lying to her mother, yet I say nothing. I
believe we’re going to the playground like I believe I’ll be 6’ 5” when I grow
up. At 12 years old and 4’10”, with parents who barely top 5’1”, the answer is
the same, fat chance.”
From Ann Stolinsky’s “Don’t Tell”
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Ann Stolinsky is a Pennsylvania-based word and game expert. She is the founder and owner of Gontza Games, an independent board and card game company, and three of her games are currently in the marketplace:
“MINDFIELD, The Game of United States Military Trivia”; “Pass the Grogger!”; and “Christmas Cards.”
Check out her website at www.gontzagames.com. She is also a partner in Gemini Wordsmiths, a full-service copyediting and content creating company. Visit www.geminiwordsmiths.com for more information and testimonials. Ann reviews books for Amazing Stories Magazine, an online sci-fi magazine which can be found at www.amazingstoriesmag.com, and is an Assistant Editor for Red Sun Magazine, www.redsunmagazine.com. Her most recent publishing credit is a poem in the Fall 2015 issue of Space and Time Magazine. She is a graduate of the Bram Stoker award-winning author Jonathan Maberry’s short story writing class.
Elaine Crauder’s fiction is also in Cooweescoowee, The
Boston Literary Magazine, The Eastern Iowa Review , and Penumbra. Another story
received the Westmoreland Short Story Award. Eleven of her short stories have
been finalists or semi-finalists in contests, including finalists in the Tobias
Wolff and Mark Twain House contests. ”The Price Of A Pony,” under the
title”Christmas the Hard Way,” was a semi-finalist for both Ruminate
Magazine’s short story prize and for the
Salem College Center for Women Writers Reynolds Price short fiction award.
Richard D. “Ky” Owen is a lawyer with Goodwin &
Goodwin, LLP, in Charleston, West Virginia. He earned a B.A. in journalism from
Michigan State University in 1981 and a J.D. from Hamline University in 1984.
Coming from a family of writers, he considers himself a “writer by birth.” He is
the author of
None Call Me
Dad and he blogs about parenting and Michigan State sports on his website,
www.nonecallmedad.com.
Keith R. Fentonmiller is a consumer protection attorney for
the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, D.C. Before graduating from the
University of Michigan Law School, he toured with a professional comedy troupe,
writing and performing sketch comedy at colleges in the Mid-Atlantic States.
His Pushcart-nominated short story was recently published in the Stonecoast
Review. His debut novel, Kasper Mützenmacher’s Cursed Hat, will be published
March 20, 2017 by Curiosity Quills Press.
Based in
Southern California, Dr. Lisa Montagne
currently divides her time between writing poetry and prose, teaching writing
to (mostly) willing college students, and overseeing educational technology
projects and support at Fullerton College. She is also a Swing, Blues, and
Argentine Tango dancer, host, DJ, and instructor. She likes to drink Champagne
in as many places as she can, including Europe; to read poetry aloud to anybody
who will listen; to cook for anybody who is willing to sit down long enough to
enjoy her food; to dabble in drawing, painting, and photography; and to read
anything plopped in front of her, ranging from D.H. Lawrence to Vogue magazine.
She also likes to watch television and movies, and to imagine how much better
she would have produced them herself. She lived in Las Vegas at one time, so
she likes to tell people that she was a stripper there. She was really just a
graduate student and high school teacher, but it’s more fun to let people
wonder. Although rumored to be a direct descendent of Oompa Loompas, Lisa is
actually the offspring of a college professor and a circus dwarf. You can find
some more of her writing at archive405.com and lisamontagne.com, and see
evidence of her adventures @lisamlore on Instagram.
Lisa Diane Kastne is a former correspondent for the
Philadelphia Theatre Review and Features Editor for the Picolata Review, her
short stories have appeared in magazines and journals such as StraightJackets
Magazine and HESA Inprint. In 2007 Kastner was featured in the Fresh Lines @
Fresh Nine, a public reading hosted by Gross McCleaf Art Gallery. She founded
Running Wild Writers and is the former president of Pennwriters, Inc.
(www.pennwriters.com). She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Fairfield
University, her MBA from Pennsylvania State and her BS from Drexel University
(She’s definitely full of it). Her novel THE KEEPER OF LOST THINGS was
shortlisted in the fiction category of the William Faulkner Words and Wisdom
Award and her memoir BREATHE was a semi-finalist in the nonfiction category of
the same award. Born and raised in Camden, New Jersey she migrated to
Philadelphia in her twenties and eventually transported to Los Angeles,
California with her partner-in-crime and ever-talented husband. They nurture two
felonious felines who anxiously engage in little sparks of anarchy.
Aimee LaBrie works as a communications director at
Rutgers University. She earned her MFA in fiction from Penn State, and her MLA
from University of Pennsylvania. Her short story collection, Wonderful Girl,
was awarded the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Fiction and published by the
University of North Texas Press in 2007. Her second collection of stories, A
Good Thing, placed as a finalist in the BOA Short Fiction Contest. Her short stories
have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and published in Pleiades, Minnesota
Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, Permafrost, and other literary journals. In
2012, she won first place in Zoetrope’s All-Story Fiction contest. You can read
her blog at www.butcallmebetsy.blogspot.com.
Kristan Campbell is a short story writer born in
Washington, D.C. but has only visited her grandmother there during some of the
summers of her childhood. She’s more familiar with Philadelphia, New York City,
and Paris than her native city and aims to weave her experiences in those
places into tales based on places and people that are out of the ordinary. She
studied Journalism at Temple University (what seemed like a practical approach
to writing at the time) and Comparative Literature at Hunter College (which
seemed like a fun idea at the time) before accepting that she should have been
an English major all along. Kristan completed her B.A. in English at Temple
University in 2010 and an MFA in Fiction at Fairfield
University in
2016. She’s currently attempting to eke out a living doing freelance editing
with the help of her cat, Fishy, who manages her desktop printer with
enthusiasm.
Bill Ed Scruggs spent his younger years meeting the
Southern mountain countryside and exploring the people, taking time out as
needed for work in various occupations. He lives (temporarily) in Connecticut
and has one child, a psychiatrist. Presently he is reconstructing his memories
and imaginings in a series of novels and short stories (Facebook page Foothills
Fiction - Bill Ed Scruggs) Warrensburg is a fictional photo of a country
village in the illumination of fireflies.
Joshua Hedges is a debut Science Fiction writer
from Pittsburgh, PA. He graduated from The University of Pittsburgh with a
degree in Computer Science. When he’s not writing stories or code, he ventures
outdoors with his wife and three-year-old son to hunt dragons in the forest.
Gary Zenker is a marketing professional whose
days are filled with creating business and marketing plans, and writing ad copy
and media content. By night, he applies his imagination to flash fiction tales
that cross genre and focus on revealing various facets of human nature. He is
the author of Meetup Leader, a book on running successful groups; is editor and
publisher of 19 books in the rock & roll Archives series; and co-author of
Says Seth, a humorous collection written with his then six-year-old son. His
work has earned a dozen marketing awards and placed in four writers’ contests,
including a first place recognition from Oxford University Press. He founded
and continues to lead two writers groups in southeastern PA, assisting others
to develop their skills and achieve their writing goals.
www.zenkermarketing.com
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