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 […]
Free Fiction Monday: An Incursion of Mice
Beautiful longhaired tom Wall T runs a tight household. But when the other cats in his pride begin reporting a mouse incursion, he launches an investigation. What he uncovers might change everything he thought he knew about crime and leadership. This delightful detective tale by New York Times bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch offers a fascinating feline perspective on the nature of a crime. “An […]
Free Fiction Monday: Track 61
Kessa possesses only small magic. But her skills allow her to help those who wield bigger magic. Her latest job takes her deep into the bowels of New York City’s subway system, hunting for bits of history long since forgotten. And what she finds deep down in the dark will both threaten her life and change it forever. “Track 61,” by international bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch, is […]
Free Fiction Monday: Cat Nap
Triwell doesn’t adopt strays. He feels like a stray himself, a man who has lost everything even though he has a house and an antiquarian bookstore in Seavy Village on the Oregon Coast. But the cat adopted him. And she proves a mystery. A mystery who lives with him. A mystery he will solve one summer in a surprising—and deadly—way. “Cat Nap,” by international bestselling author Kristine […]
Free Fiction Monday: Our Opera Singer
At times, many seek ways to change their existence. Some take classes. Our Opera Singer shows up in a voiceover class. A decision everyone in the class might come to regret. Perhaps most of all, her. “Our Opera Singer” perfectly captures Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s mastery of crime fiction. “Our Opera Singer,” by international bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch, is free on this website for one week only. The […]
Free Fiction Monday: June Sixteenth at Anna’s
Leta’s death leaves her husband Mac with his memories and one famous holorecording. On June 16, 2001, Leta ate at a restaurant called Anna’s, and a time travel recording made of that day later became a sensation. Leta collected all of the versions of that recording, but Mac has never seen it. Until now. Called “hauntingly sad” by the Sacramento Book Review, and chosen as […]
Free Fiction Monday: Artistic Photographs
Roz trusts her husband, Jack. So when she catches him in her photography studio with a naked young woman, she knows the situation offers more than meets the eye. Turns out the young woman wants to pose for “artistic photographs”—the euphemism given to naked daguerreotypes sold to soldiers on the western frontier. But the young woman does not fit the usual naked-photograph type. Roz vows […]
Free Fiction Monday: Thorns
Shelton believes flowers save people, so Ruth-Anne Grant’s demands that he remove her name from his floral delivery list appall him. Because it turns out the roses he spent his morning crafting came from her stalker. Shelton, embarrassed and frightened for her, gives her the stalker’s name, thinking his involvement will end there. Only it doesn’t. The police show up at his flower shop two […]
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