Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Welcome to Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s and Dean Wesley Smith’s writing home world.   Science Fiction.   Stories from their most acclaimed and famous s...

The Cutting Edge of Modern Short FictionA three-time Hugo Award nominated magazine, this issue of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine offers up ten fantasti...

1912—In a world where President Andrew Johnson’s conviction at his impeachment trial guaranteed that Reconstruction not only had teeth but also con...

The Cutting Edge of Modern Short FictionA three-time Hugo Award nominated magazine, this issue of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine offers up ten fantasti...

First Fandom member Ira Hartmann’s memories mean everything to him. So, when the slide deck containing those memories goes missing at Eschercon, Se...

When Cullaene learns the colonists want to question him about a murder, he fears for his life. But he must also think about the daughter of the peo...

Max finds himself distracted at this year’s music festival on the Oregon Coast by a strange woman who seems to know him. He can’t make sense of her...

Reese Catton manages campaigns. The dirty side of campaigns. And he has dirt suggesting that his candidate’s opponent serves as a vampire’s slave....

Boz got his job on the colony ship The Beautiful Dreamer because of his skills as a competent introvert. He enjoys spending years completely alone,...

New Year’s Eve at the hottest party in the city. Until a bomb at midnight shatters everything. One guest should have known what was coming. Now, sh...

The Cutting Edge of Modern Short Fiction A three-time Hugo Award nominated magazine, this issue of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine offers up ten fantas...

Nora Barr’s struggling law practice gets a boost when she meets a tall, dark, and handsome stranger who has a snake wrapped around his arm and a s...

In the first days of the Clinton administration, Ransom, a DC private eye specializing in Republican dirty tricks, falls on hard times. He finds h...

Silas has worked for Death in Nevada for 150 years. He gets Christmas and Christmas Eve off. Only this year, his substitute finds him in a Las Veg...

Bobberts got his name from his little sister Sarah. He likes her okay. But she can be annoying, like when she wants to make snow angels at the Chr...

The woman who calls Police Detective Riley Scott possesses a voice he finds incredibly sexy. He wants to keep her talking. She wants to set up an ...

Leta has died, leaving her husband Mac with his memories and one famous holorecording. On June 16, 2001, Leta ate at a restaurant called Anna’s, a...

When an African-American woman arrives whipped and tortured at the Club on Lake Superior, she interrupts a meeting of powerbrokers setting up the 1...

When Keisha married Ruben, she planned the perfect wedding—and the perfect wedding cake. But when an uninvited guest ruins the reception, it unrav...

Boss remembers the Room. It haunts her. Her mother died there. Now, a client wants her to go back. She wants Boss to help her uncover the Room’s m...

Read a story per day from the end of November to January first…or binge the entire collection. Stories that center around holidays from American T...

Scrooges unite! In this crime-filled WMG Holiday Spectacular anthology, award-winning editor Kristine Kathryn Rusch offers a darker and more distu...

Pascal protects magical items for Abracadabra Inc. But when he finds his latest job thwarted by disruptive magic, he decides to find its source. B...

The theory goes that if cats find love and encourage romance, especially with humans, then cats end up with homes. But does it really work that wa...