Slaughter Run: A Story

by Sarah Cypher

A young doctor travels to a backwoods Pennsylvania creek for vacation, but learns that her medical training hasn't begun to prepare her for the horror of a modern-day "Deliverance."

Kindle Edition

First published October 2, 2012

About the author

Sarah Cypher is a freelance book editor and author of The Skin and Its Girl (Ballantine, April 2023). She has an MFA from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, where she was a Rona Jaffe Graduate Creative Writing Fellow in fiction. Her writing has appeared in the Washington Post, New Ohio Review, Majuscule, North American Review, LEON Literary Review, Crab Orchard Review, and others. She grew up in a Lebanese Christian family near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and lives in Washington, D.C., with her wife.