Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Cats move around. In fact, a cat’s very nature requires them to explore, to move from place to place. Even if their realm lies indoors, they still...

On the sun-scorched planet Bountiful, human colonists live peacefully alongside natives known as Dancers until an unspeakable disaster devastates ...

Imagine paying a fine for walking across town. Or hiding an illegal marriage. Or losing your life for playing the harp. Strange crimes, dangerous a...

Laws change from culture to culture, decade to decade. Strange laws make criminals of ordinary citizens. Like the Massachusetts woman whose brother...

Most writers run their careers the same way they did in the 1990s. But publishing has changed so much since then that any writer who works on the ...

In this WMG Writer’s Guide, award-winning author and business owner Kristine Kathryn Rusch provokes writers to think about their own careers as a ...

Imagine knowing ahead of time what day you die. But you need crucial information. How? Where? Who? Car accident? Maybe. Natural causes? Maybe. Murd...

As Woodrow Wilson said, “University politics are so vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.” True.  The politics vicious. The stakes sma...

Twin princes—the curse of King Pardu’s line.  Pardu killed his own twin to secure the throne.  Now Pardu, dying, wants to use old magic to determin...

Emilio Diate-the greatest dancer the Kingdom has ever produced- has vowed vengeance on that government for its merciless execution of his entire fa...

An innocent excited boy, a prince and heir, takes his first journey to the city.  It is like nothing he imagined. Hands pound against his carriage:...

Wee folk populate fiction in a variety of forms, from elves to pixies to fairies to sprites. This collection of six stories from award-winning and ...

Magic awaits…   Escape into fantasy worlds beyond imagination and yet as comfortable as home.   Twenty stories explode with the fantastic: Magical...

Explore the darker side of human nature in Series Collide Volume 3.   These twenty stories venture into the dark, twisted and broken places where ...

Superheroes, sexy ghosts, opinionated cats, kids with fairy tale parents and, and, and…   Twenty stories jampacked with incredible characters on ad...

A desert lake. A severed arm. A thousand questions.   Las Vegas summer sun bakes Metro Detective Sofia Herrara as she carefully steps her way to so...

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

Portia, a magical theatrical dramaturg, answers a friend's call to help a group of frightened high school theater students connect with their new t...

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

Nellie doesn't realize her stormy morning beach walk foreshadows a threat to her life and the life of her beloved small Seavy County town. The outs...

A perfectly placed body inside a perfectly maintained home brings Detective Caro Tompkins back to her childhood neighborhood, Arboretum Heights. Wh...

WHODUNNIT DIDN’T DO ITMystery short stories twisted in fantasy or science fiction settings. Straight detective fiction or a cozy like no other cozy...

I Heard the Twang of Love and It Hurt My EarsThe weird title fits the ten great short stories in this book. All ten stories come from the pages of ...

AN AFTERLIFE OF REALLY CREEPY STORIESPulphouse Fiction Magazine gives you “afterlife” like no other magazine. No idea what afterlife means exactly,...