Running Wild Novella Anthology Volume 8: Book 2

​The Tragic Plight of E.G.: A Clinical Case Report
＂The Tragic Plight of E.G.: A Clinical Case Report＂ is a day-by-day account of an ill-fated patient who is hospitalized for a mysterious illness. He finds himself in the care of a team of top-notch doctors, nurses, social workers, and therapists. Even so, the patient’s condition continues to deteriorate, forcing this modern medical establishment to grapple with what it really means to ＂do no harm.＂

Sgt Katrina Dunn, a.k.a. Angela Parker & the Games They Play
Angela Parker, who isn’t your average 17-year-old, but who is?, has her run of Alien Quest hijacked by a man who looks, curiously, like her Uncle Reggie. The Uncle Reggie clone invites Ange to play an innovative and sensorily immersive kind of game, one that involves adopting an avatar role where you become someone frighteningly like yourself in a world that rapidly goes crazy. As Ashlie Sweet, Angela Parker finds herself fighting villains that look uncommonly like today’s politicians in a small U.S. town. Everything apparently normal in this small town rapidly goes belly up: there are race riots, detention-centers, murder, and that’s just in the first week.

What’s more - with her game based boyfriend Norman Mené - she discovers they’re in a game within a game and that they (their real theys back in Nottingham U.K. and Sydney, Australia and all the other places where the game players come from) are being data mined. The stakes aren’t just in winning or losing a game. Maybe the fate of the free world hangs in the balance.

Talk about doing a girl’s head in.

Stephen J Kimber is an Australian author and teacher. He has co-authored a number of educational texts in English, History and Geography for John Wiley & Sons (Jacaranda), Nelson Thomson (CEngage), and others. He currently lives with his wife, Linda, in rural Queensland, Australia, and shares the house with a husky named Syah and a cat named by his daughter after Childish Gambino. After a long career in the corporate world, Don Tassone has returned to his creative writing roots. He is the author of two novels and seven short story collections. Don and his wife Liz live in Loveland, Ohio. They have four children. Andrew MacQuarrie is a reader, a writer, a veteran, and a doctor. A native of Canada, he now lives in Los Angeles. MacQuarrie has previously published in The Montreal Review, The Write Launch, Pennsylvania English, and On The Premises. He can be followed on Twitter @haemo_goblin.