Free Fiction Monday: Drinking in the Afternoon

People disappear for many reasons. Sometimes, for reasons only they know. And sometimes, the missing will do whatever it takes to stay missing. A poignant story about grief, loss, and finding a way to cope, “Drinking in the Afternoon” demonstrates Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s incredible mastery of short fiction. “Drinking in the Afternoon,” by international bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch, is free on this website for one week only. […]

Posted: September 18, 2023
Under: Current News, free fiction, Free Fiction Mondays, Mysteries
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Free Fiction Monday: Killer Advice

Vaadum: the kind of place where vacationers go by accident. When a spaceship arrives at a Vaadum Resort and Casino on fire, with some passengers already dead, the survivors seek refuge. But when someone starts picking them off, too, the crew must catch the killer before no survivors remain. Chosen as one of the best novellas of the year by the readers of Asimov’s Science […]

Posted: September 11, 2023
Under: Current News, free fiction, Free Fiction Mondays, Kris DeLake, Science Fiction, Space Opera
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Free Fiction Monday: Fighting Bob

When an African-American woman arrives whipped and tortured at the Club on Lake Superior, she interrupts a meeting of powerbrokers setting up the 1924 senate election. Russell hoped to use the meeting to garner support for his candidate, Joe Stanislawski. But the interruption disrupts Russell’s plans. When Joe rushes to the woods where the woman says the men who beat her are still beating her […]

Posted: September 4, 2023
Under: Alternate History, Current News, free fiction, Free Fiction Mondays
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Free Fiction Monday: Rose in Dreamland

Coney Island in 1907, known for its freaks and spectacles. But for Rose, Coney Island becomes a place of wonder, a place that makes memories. A place that saves lives… A moving story that offers a glimpse at the Coney Island of old through an unexpected lens. “Rose in Dreamland,” by international bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch, is free on this website for one week only. The story’s […]

Posted: August 28, 2023
Under: Current News, free fiction, Free Fiction Mondays, Women's Fiction
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Free Fiction Monday: Stealth

Stealth tech: a lost science everyone wants to reclaim. The woman who helped Boss dive the Dignity Vessel, known then as Squishy, claims a long and storied history with stealth tech. Her research into the lost science caused deaths before, and she failed to prevent them during that fateful dive. Now, she vows to find a way to destroy the technology once and for all. […]

Posted: August 21, 2023
Under: Current News, Diving Into The Wreck, free fiction, Free Fiction Mondays, Science Fiction, Space Opera
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Free Fiction Monday: Spirit Guides

Kincaid always shows up at a crime scene before the crime happens. Except at the Burger Joint. He got stuck in Los Angeles traffic and arrived just after the shooting ended. Now he must deal with carnage, carnage he couldn’t prevent—carnage he has never been able to prevent. The carnage takes him to the end of his singular talent, and as he tries to flee, […]

Posted: August 14, 2023
Under: Current News, Fantasy, free fiction, Free Fiction Mondays
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Free Fiction Monday: Scars

Rena lost everything when her husband and son died in a fiery car accident. Now she has only her daily swim at the rec center, where she hopes no one pays attention to her horrible burn scars. But someone noticed—the same someone who murders a lifeguard while Rena does her laps. Only Rena can identify the killer, but the identification might prove more difficult than […]

Posted: August 7, 2023
Under: Current News, free fiction, Free Fiction Mondays, Mysteries
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Free Fiction Monday: Watching the Music Dance

Suze loves her music. She hides in it when her parents fight. But when the fights end in divorce, the divorce brings an end to the music—obtained illegally by Suze’s mother. Now Nils, Suze’s father, must quickly find a way to save his daughter’s music—and her sanity—without breaking the law. “Watching the Music Dance,” by international bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch, is free on this website for one […]

Posted: July 31, 2023
Under: Current News, free fiction, Free Fiction Mondays, Science Fiction
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Free Fiction Monday: Waltzing on a Dancer’s Grave

When Greta arrives at Grayson Place with her ballet company, her memories haunt her. Karl Grayson died there twenty years earlier, but she returns to the mansion for the company’s fiftieth-anniversary gala anyway, just as he wished. Karl’s death freed her once. Or did it? “Waltzing on a Dancer’s Grave,” by international bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch, is free on this website for one week only. The story’s […]

Posted: July 24, 2023
Under: Current News, Fantasy, free fiction, Free Fiction Mondays
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Free Fiction Monday: Fast Cars

The four musketeers plus one they call themselves: Johnny, Craig, Dale, Rennie and Carren. They want to make something of themselves, do great things after high school. So, they devise an experiment to guarantee their lives will amount to something. And that experiment changes their futures—but not in the ways any of them expects. A Nebula Award-nominated story about dreaming of a future and looking […]

Posted: July 17, 2023
Under: Current News, free fiction, Free Fiction Mondays, Science Fiction
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