I Run For Freedom

Book
Written By Mona Angéline

I wrote a book! Haven't been very public about it online, but I'm querying. I hope one day it's out there, even if the traditional avenues fail and I'll self publish.

Here's a little bit about my autofiction novel:

Every morning, Mona steps out of bed with her sciatic foot screaming murder, puts on her running shoes, and lies back down because standing for more than thirty seconds sends red-hot daggers down her spine. Then she heads out to run—except, she can’t stop and stand. Not at a traffic light, not to order a coffee.

Mind you, Mona can’t sit either. Especially not at work, where the academic hyenas scream her name in abusive emails daily. One toxic boss after another strips her of her grant money, her intellectual ownership, and her dignity. And yet, she continues on her path, hoping to become a tenured professor in biomedical engineering.

Mona’s only way to succeed in academia appears to involve ignoring her body. At least that’s what her childhood abuse has taught her. But the disability, invisible to others, begins to scream louder than the hyenas, louder than life, louder than anything she’s ever heard.

How much trauma will she endure to get to the pinnacle of her career before she sets herself free? Will we watch Mona run towards her finish line of personal freedom, or will she step back into her confinement, only to endure more damage to her body?

Mona Angéline

Mona Angéline is an unapologetically vulnerable writer, reader, book reviewer, artist, athlete, and scientist. She honors the creatively unconventional, the authentically "other". She shares her emotions because the world tends to hide theirs. She is a new writer, but her work was recently accepted in Flash Fiction Magazine, Grand Dame Literary, tiny wren lit, Down in the Dirt Magazine, The Viridian Door, The Machine, Whisky Blot Magazine, and The Academy of Mind and Heart. She loves to review books and has written them for the /tƐmz/ Review, the Ampersand Review, and the Beakful Litblog. Sooner or later she will have to condense this list… Mona is also a regular guest editor for scientific journals although she doesn't use a pen name when her engineering PhD degree is involved. She lives bicoastally in Santa Cruz, California, and in New York and savors life despite, or maybe because of, her significant struggles with chronic illness and mild disability. Learn about her musings at creativerunnings.com. Follow her on Instagram under @creativerunnings and on Twitter at @creativerunning.

https://creativerunnings.com
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