If Those Ragged Feet Won't Run

<p>"If Those Ragged Feet Won't Run," published in <em>Apex Magazine,</em> issue 122, March 2021.</p> <p>Read it here. <a href= "https://apex-magazine.com/if-those-ragged-feet-wont-run/" target= "_blank" rel= "noopener">apex-magazine.com/if-those-ragged-feet-wont-run</a></p> <p>Annie Neugebauer is a novelist, blogger, nationally award-winning poet, and two-time Bram Stoker Award-nominated short story author with work appearing in more than a hundred publications, including <em>Cemetery Dance</em>, <em>Black Static</em>, and <em>Year’s Best Hardcore Horror</em> volumes 3, 4, and 5. She’s a columnist and writing instructor for LitReactor. You can visit her at <a href="http://www.AnnieNeugebauer.com" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">www.AnnieNeugebauer.com</a>.</p> <p>New Zealand born fantasy writer and podcaster Philippa (Pip) Ballantine is the author of the <em>Books of the Order</em>, <em>The Chronicles of Art</em>, and The Shifted World series. She is also the co-author of the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences series with her husband Tee Morris. In nonfiction, Pip has cowritten with Tee <em>Social Media for Writers</em> from Writer’s Digest.</p> <p>Her awards include an Airship, a Parsec, the Steampunk Chronicle Reader’s Choice, the RT Reviewer’s Choice Award for steampunk, and a Sir Julius Vogel. Philippa currently resides in Manassas, Virginia, with her husband, daughter, and a furry clowder of cats.</p> <p>This <em>Apex Magazine</em> podcast was produced by KT Bryski. Theme music by Alex White. Other music in this podcast includes "Darkling," "Gathering Darkness," "Leaving Home," "Long Note Four," "The Escalation," "Ossuary 6 - Air," and "Water Lily," all by Kevin MacLeod and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license. Learn more at <a href="https://incompetech.com/" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">www.incompetech.com</a>. Some sounds in this podcast provided by the Free Sound Project. Find out more at <a href="http://www.freesound.org">www.freesound.org</a>.</p> <p><em>Apex Magazine</em> podcast, c