Tag: run

• A Story About Running

  

  “So, it’s a story about love?” “No. It’s a story about running.” “Oh. Tell it again. I must not have been listening.” “Way back when your mom and I used to share an apartment, I used to go running. I went nearly every day. And nearly every day, I would ask your mom to come…

  Dan Metzger

  September 23, 2015

  Fiction, Short Story

  absurdity, brother, creative writing, family, Fiction, fight, jogging, life, love, pace, run, running, sister

• Running Home

  Emma was in Boston the last time she’d ventured out for a jog. It had rained that morning and the puddles lay like landmines along her sidewalk-to-pond-and-back circuit. The mud splashed up to her ankles and had caked thickly on the laces of her running shoes. Now, in the living room of her parents’ Pennsylvanian…

  Dan Metzger

  August 25, 2015

  Fiction, Short Story

  application, art, books, Boston, Christmas tree, Christmas tree farm, city, college, creative writing, Donna Haraway, exercise, family, farm, farmer, Fiction, home, homecoming, literary theory, literature, narrative, narratology, Pennsylvania, reliance, run, Runner’s World, running, running shoes, self-acceptance, self-discovery, self-reflection, small town, smartphone, teaching, technology, town, tradtiion

• You Better Run

  

  When you go for long runs, moments become monumental. After a while, you finally hit that temperature when the pores on the crown of your head open like infants’ eyes, oozing the byproduct of your stamping feet’s toil. Their opening is the moment you desire from the time you take your first stride. Hammering the…

  Dan Metzger

  June 2, 2014

  Essay, Rudimentary Philosophy

  desire, exercise, Fiction, love, mental health, nature, romance, run, running, self-reflection, sweat, trust, workout