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.
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M. Arbon writes stories, mostly queer, often sexy, about people who try hard not to be jerks. M. lives and works in Toronto, Canada. M.'s stories have appeared in the anthologies His Seed and Best Gay Stories 2017, as well as being published as stand-alone volumes.