Ernst Doud is a middle-aged 154-year-old nonhuman painter living quietly in Los Angeles when he receives a cryptic letter from a lover he last saw in 1913, precisely at the moment he killed him-or so he had always thought. So begins M. Christian's debut novel, as unlike any book you have read as Doud is unlike any hero who has ever graced the pages of a novel. Set in contemporary Los Angeles, with excursions into the surreal outback of Southern California's high desert, Running Dry is a stunningly realized story of vengeance, loyalty, and the inescapable humanity of the inhuman.
M. Christian's short stories have been collected in the books Dirty Words, Speaking Parts, and The Bachelor Machine.
