Running Wild, LLC positions its annual anthology as a home for the short story in its most essential form: unagented, unfettered, and under fifteen thousand words. The press's open call is deliberately unadorned—no theme, no aesthetic mandate, only a word limit and a standard manuscript format. This absence of prescription is itself a curatorial stance, suggesting that the editors are reading for voice, structure, and narrative authority rather than adherence to a trend or genre constraint. For the writer, the terms are straightforward and unusually generous: no submission fee, no agent required, and a clear deadline of January 2, 2028. The anthology format implies a curated collection rather than a competition with a single winner, meaning accepted stories will sit alongside others selected by the same editorial eye. What the press offers is publication within a series that returns annually to the short story as a form worth sustaining. The call's brevity—'We want your best works'—reads less as a slogan than as a directive. It places the burden of selection on the writer's own judgment, asking for the story that represents the fullest expression of their craft. For writers accustomed to thematic calls and niche categories, this is a reminder that the short story anthology remains one of the few venues where the only brief is excellence.