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Results [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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An engaged couple undergoes extensive genetic testing to ensure that their progeny will be above average. Short story that poignantly explores issues of genetic testing, parenthood, and issues that society will soon face.
Words: 2973 - Reading Time: 8-11 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Cat Nap [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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Mr. Triwell found the cat, Missy, on the beach, obviously abandoned by her former owners. But when the owners returned to the beachfront town nearly a year later, they want their cat back. Missy doesn't want to leave--and she has some secrets of her own. (Published: 2003)
Words: 5078 - Reading Time: 14-20 min.
Category: Mystery/Crime
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Skin Deep [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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Kristine Kathryn Rusch's first published story has been anthologized numerous times. Cullaene is an alien who is accused of murder when all he's trying to do is survive on his home planet--a planet now overrun with humans. (Published: 1988)
Words: 6032 - Reading Time: 17-24 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Burial Detail [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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 In the shadow of the American Civil War, a freed slave is trying to earn money by burying the dead at Cold Harbor ... and hides a secret that makes his burial detail one of the most horrible jobs of his life. (Published: 2000)
Words: 3315 - Reading Time: 9-13 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy
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Cowboy Grace [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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One of this year's Edgar nominees for best short story, "Cowboy Grace" is a tale of a woman who starts a new life, only to be haunted by her old one. (Published: 2003) Edgar Award Nominee
Words: 13457 - Reading Time: 38-53 min.
Category: Mystery/Crime
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Saving Face [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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A woman enters Winston's magic shop seeking a new face. Winston has small magic and tells her he lacks the power. Next thing he knows, she winds up dead. Is it his fault for refusing her? And can he solve a magical murder without revealing his own identity to the police? A stand-alone story about the characters who first appeared in "Familiar Territory." (Published: 2000)
Words: 9023 - Reading Time: 25-36 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Star [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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After a beating that left her near death and killed her cat, Anna escaped to a whole new life. Now a cat that looks like her Star has arrived in her backyard. Is it real, a ghost or a figment of her terrified imagination? (Published: 2001)
Words: 5750 - Reading Time: 16-23 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Story Child [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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The world is turned upside-down by the Abandonment, and now there are no children left. Adults are falling victim to all manner of plagues and diseases with seemingly no cause. Then, one day, the story child appeared. (Published: 1990) Nebula Award(R) Nominee, Year's Best Science Fiction Selection
Words: 4198 - Reading Time: 11-16 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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The Strangeness of the Day [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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"The Strangeness of the Day" forms the basis for Kristine Kathryn Rusch's award-winning paranormal romance novel, Utterly Charming (which she published under the name Kristine Grayson). However this version of the tale has more fantasy than romance. Nora Barr meets two strange men in the parking garage of her law offices, men who use magic to blow up a quiet neighborhood. Then they tell her an even stranger tale about Sleeping Beauty, coffins, and an evil stepmother. (Published: 1998)
Words: 8829 - Reading Time: 25-35 min.
Category: Fantasy
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After the Fall [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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Pete hates dogs. But one afternoon, while hiking, he falls down the side of a cliff. Will he live or die? It all depends on ... dogs. (Published: 2004)
Words: 9270 - Reading Time: 26-37 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Death on D Street [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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A happily married small town sheriff is called to a whorehouse to solve a ghastly murder. As the clues mount up, he realizes that nothing is as it seems--not even his own wife. (Published: 2002)
Words: 7074 - Reading Time: 20-28 min.
Category: Historical Fiction
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Destiny [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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A rarity--a short story written in Rusch's popular Fey universe. "Destiny" is a prequel to the Fey novels. The shape-shifter Solanda must choose between an enemy's child and going to war. (Published: 2000)
Words: 9169 - Reading Time: 26-36 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Details [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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In post World War II Nevada a returning soldier is accused of murder. Ellery Queen Magazine Reader's Choice Winner
Words: 8752 - Reading Time: 25-35 min.
Category: Mystery/Crime
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Dragonslayer [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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Originally written for a German anthology, 'Dragonslayer' makes its first English language appearance here. A young dragon discovers the dead body of another dragon--with dire consequences for the entire dragon community. (Published: 2003)
Words: 6895 - Reading Time: 19-27 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Duplicate Effort [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe PDF/Adobe EPUB]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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Retrieval Artist Miles Flint is on a personal missionto bring down the corrupt law firm of Wagner, Stuart, and Xender. Then a journalist working with him is murdered, and Miles may be next. But before he can begin to investigate, he has a more personal crisis to deal withhis daughter Talia is missing. Taliaone of six clones of Miles long-dead childhas gone off to find the other five. As Miles pursues her, he begins to fear that her search for her sisters and his for the killer are on a collision... more info>>
Category: Science Fiction
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Echea [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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A couple decides to adopt a starving refugee child from a war-torn city. The unusual thing is that the war-torn city happens to be on the moon. Nebula Award(R) Nominee, Locus Poll Award Nominee, HOMer Award Winner, Asimov's Reader's Choice Award Winner, Hugo Award Nominee, Sturgeon Award Nominee
Words: 14331 - Reading Time: 40-57 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Familiar Territory [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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Winston's familiar, an elderly black cat named Buster, has a last wish: He wants a Viking funeral. Winston, a shy man who is on the run from the police, doesn't want to call attention to himself in his new hometown, but he promised his old friend that last wish. Now Winston has a two-pronged dilemma: how to perform magic without his familiar and how to send a burning long boat out to sea without being arrested. A gentle story about love and funerals. (Published: 1997)
Words: 3695 - Reading Time: 10-14 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Fast Cars [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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Carren and her four best friends in high school perform a risky experiment with their biochemistry project ... on themselves. (Published: 1989) Nebula Award(R) Nominee
Words: 10395 - Reading Time: 29-41 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Forest for the Trees [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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Anne and Louisa skip school to view an ancient forest that's been revealed on the winter beach. Only hidden in the ruined trees is more than the past. The girls see faces. Could spirits have been trapped when the forest was destroyed? (Published: 2004)
Words: 9064 - Reading Time: 25-36 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Harvest [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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This quiet fantasy about family, quilts, and secrets passed down through generations is one of Kristine Kathryn Rusch's most popular stories. First published in Amazing Stories, "Harvest" was later chosen for the Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. (Published: 1990)
Words: 4343 - Reading Time: 12-17 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Heroics [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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Maxwell Sobel made his living writing about action heroes. Only when strangers kidnap his little girl, he learns how difficult fighting crime truly can be. (Published: 2002) Edgar Award Nominee, Ellery Queen Magazine Reader's Choice Winner
Words: 10643 - Reading Time: 30-42 min.
Category: Mystery/Crime
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Judgement [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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In Kristine Kathryn Rusch's 'Judgement', Tyrone Briggs was lured into the human world by the music of the Meistersinger of Nuremberg, Hans Sachs. Now, after centuries away, he finds himself back in the city, as a photographer at the Nazi trials. He finds that it is not only the war criminals that are being judged. (Published: 2004)
Words: 5260 - Reading Time: 15-21 min.
Category: Fantasy
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June Sixteenth at Anna's [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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After his wife dies, Mac finally decides to view the most important day of her life--one that has been recorded, like a live jazz album, in a holographic time-travel memory. (Published: 2003) Asimov's Reader Poll Top Ten Pick
Words: 5044 - Reading Time: 14-20 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Millennium Babies [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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It is thirty years since the turn of the second millennium, and University of Wisconsin professor Brooke Cross is approached by a colleague in the sociology department to participate in his study of successful--and unsuccessful--Millennium Babies. Brooke was one of the unsuccessful ones. She was born at five minutes past midnight 2000, and the extra four minutes cost her mother the fame and fortune of having the first baby of the new millenium--and has never let her forget it. As Brooke progress... more info>> (Published: 2000) Hugo Award Winner, Locus Poll Award Nominee, Asimov's Reader's Choice Award Nominee
Words: 14098 - Reading Time: 40-56 min.
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Moments [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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The spaceship came from Europa. The crew was dead, slaughtered by something inside the ship. But what? A story that looks at the effect of murder and space travel on all the people who encounter them. (Published: 2002)
Words: 5651 - Reading Time: 16-22 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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