Run with Me
At the story’s center is coma stricken Annie, a victim of a hit and run. In her mind, in that twilight space between life and death, she is running, not only passing places from her past, but also meeting central figures of her life where she will ultimately reconcile a life turning event.
In the conscious world, Annie’s boyfriend, John, is keeping vigil over Annie’s broken body, half-crazed with worry and hope. In his memories of Annie, we get to know her, and experience the nature of their love. When he’s able to sleep, John meets her in a parallel place of dreams. However in these dreams, John’s a young teen, and Annie is a mentor, teaching him to let go and experience childlike joy.
Muriel, Annie’s former student, is seventeen and pregnant, and wants to talk to Annie, but of course that’s not possible. Without a mother of her own, and raised by a truck driving father in a North Carolina trailer park, Muriel’s spunk is both contagious and heart wrenching as she finds the courage to make the choice that scares her the most.
A victim of domestic abuse, Jay is an emotionally battered woman who solves the hit and run mystery. Fleeing to Muriel’s trailer park, Jay and her two sons begin the upward spiral of healing. Even with an obsessive compulsive mother and the unstable husband, Jay will do more than heal; she will find the strength to start anew.
Run with Me asks the question of what happens to us in that space between conscious life and death. It is about how our lives are intertwined, the mystery of connection beyond awareness that we’ve all felt. If you’ve ever dreamed of someone and felt as if they were actually with you, if the moment you picked up the phone it rings from the person you meant to call, if you’ve ever yearned for someone so much you can almost feel their presence, then Run with Me.