The Last One on the Run: A Novelette

by Don Daglow

Silver Medal Winner, Best Short Fiction, eLit Book Awards Finalist, Top Shelf Book Awards Finalist, CIBA Shorts Book Awards From Don Daglow, the creator of the Emmy Award winning Neverwinter Nights and one of the most-honored writers in recent indie Gold Best Mystery, Readers’ Favorite Awards Gold Best Mystery, National Indie Excellence Awards Winner, Best Novel and Best Mystery, TopShelf Book Awards Runner-up, Grand Prize for Best Book of the Year, TopShelf Book Awards Silver Medal, Independent Publisher IPPY Awards Silver Medal, CLUE Awards Best Mystery and Best Literary Fiction of the Year, Independent Audiobook Awards Gold Benjamin Franklin Book Awards Gold Ariana Awards. Is he a courageous hero, standing up for noble principles? Or has he merely lost his mind? "I know that Good and Evil walk hand-in-hand. Kindness and Cruelty arrive on the same plane. The Spirit that helps one person haunts another. But when Evil, Cruelty and Horror take all the seats at the table, what can one person do?" Government has gotten serious about helping the homeless. Crews roam the streets of San Francisco. Air conditioned buses sweep people away to isolated camps where they’re given free shelter, food, medical care and retraining. No fault, no blame. No warrants, no arrests, no criminal records. And no choice. One man refuses to go. He's a unique guy, with a fascinating past and an uncertain future. He's had creative triumphs and gut-wrenching tragedies. Eventually, of course, they'll catch him. Others tried to evade the crews and failed. They'll force him to go to the camps. But until they do... He's the last one on the run. In addition to receiving the Emmy® Award for creating Neverwinter Nights™ and winning a National Endowment for the Arts New Voices writing competition, Don Daglow's work has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction .

98 pages, Paperback

Published October 11, 2019