Ernst Doud is a middle-aged 154 year old non-human 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 thought. So begins M. Christian's debut novel. Set in contemporary Los Angeles, with surreal excursions into the outback of Southern California's high desert, Running Dry is a stunningly realised horror story of vengeance, loyalty and the inherent humanity of the inhuman.… (more)