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The Running Trees

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A striking original, deftly humorous collection of stories that considers the quest for truth: how we come to it or alternatively avoid it. A fervently comic debut, The Running Trees leads readers into a series of conversations — through phonelines, acts in a play, and a rewound recording of a police interrogation — to reveal characters in fumbling bouts of brutality, reflection, isolation, and love.

Whimsical, unconventional, humorous, and always pitch-perfect, The Running Trees explores how we desperately try to communicate with each other amid the gaps in meaning we create.

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Amber McMillan

Amber McMillan is the author of the memoir The Woods: A Year on Protection Island and the poetry collection We Can’t Ever Do This Again. Her work has also appeared in PRISM international, Arc Poetry Magazine, and the Walrus. She lives in Fredericton.

Chapter Title Contents Contributors Pages Year Price

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The Dinner Party 9 $0.90

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Missing Feathers 11 $1.10

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The Phone Call 6 $0.60

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The Book Club Act I 12 $1.20

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The Legion 10 $1.00

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The Running Trees 12 $1.20

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Two Kids and a Dog 14 $1.40

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The Book Club Act II 20 $2.00

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Pick Up 17 $1.70

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Pluto of Happiness 19 $1.90

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The Arsonist 29 $2.90

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The Book Club Act III 22 $2.20

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Coffee Date 8 $0.80

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Crying Over Spilled Water 8 $0.80

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Daniel and Julia and Me 6 $0.60