Free Fiction Monday: Searching for the Familiar
When Winston discovers Ruby has vanished, his heart breaks.
But he quickly learns that familiars all over the Northwest have gone missing under mysterious circumstances.
Winston pledges to find Ruby at any cost. Or he might lose her, his only family, forever.
“Searching for the Familiar,” by World Fantasy Award-winning author Kristine Kathryn Rusch, is free on this website for one week only. The story’s also available as an ebook through various online retailers here. To read more in the Winston & Ruby series, check out the Fabulous Familiars Uncollected Anthology, featuring “Un-Familiar.”
Searching for the Familiar
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
The free story will be available for one week only. If you missed this one, click on the links above. There’s another free story lurking somewhere around the site. Track the story down, read, and enjoy!
I love the Winston & Ruby stories. I was so excited to buy your new one “Un-Familiar” and now I find this! Maybe someday Winston & Ruby could get a novel of their own?
I hope so. I have Ideas… 🙂 Thanks, Martha, and all of you who commented so far. Nice to see the love for Winston & Ruby.
I love this series of stories with Ruby and Winston, and I was so happy to see a new one. Thanks so much for posting!
More cat stories, please!
I just finished this and your story “Un-familar”; thanks, I needed these.
Thank you so much for this lovely gift of a story. Today I had to have one of my cats put down. He’d been with me since kittenhood…sixteen years together. Cancer of the thyroid. I came home in tears and my daughter made me tea. Then she reminded me I always look forward to your Monday stories. I didn’t think anything would help. I was wrong.
Thank you so much.
Oh, you’re welcome. My heart goes out to you and your family. The loss of a family member is so very hard. Glad the story provided some comfort.
Thank you so much. You are kindness personified. We never forget them, do we? I wish for you and yours all the blessings life has to offer.