Running Dry : A Novel

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.

For the last decade M.Christian has proven himself to be a true literary chameleon, establishing himself as a master of multi-orientation erotica with stories in such anthologies as Best American Erotica, Best Gay Erotica, Best Lesbian Erotica, and so on and so forth as well as with the collections Dirty Words, Speaking Parts, The Bachelor Machine, and Filthy.