‘Runaway’ is a short story written by -

Alice Ann Munro is a Canadian short-story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013.
The Swedish Academy dubbed her a “master of the contemporary short story”.
Her Notable works (short-stories):
- Runaway,
- Dance of the Happy Shades,
- The Lives of Girls and Women,
- The Bear Came over the Mountain,
- The View from Castle Rock,
- Dear Life, etc.

Short-stories collection:
- Dance of the Happy Shades
- The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose
- The Progress of Love

Source: Britannica.com