Free Fiction Monday: Hidden Treasures
After three years of hiding, Summer Amberly finally leaves the safety of the security-enhanced condo building she calls home. She ventures into a little store with a going-out-of-business sign. There she finds an answer to a problem she didn’t even know she had. “Hidden Treasures” is…
https://kriswrites.com/2025/11/17/free-fiction-monday-hidden-treasures/
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Free Fiction Monday: Holiday Treasures
After three years of hiding, Summer Amberly finally leaves the safety of the security-enhanced condo building she calls home. She ventures into a little store with a going-out-of-business sign. There she finds an answer to a problem she didn’t even know she had. “Hidden Treasures” is…
https://kriswrites.com/2025/11/17/free-fiction-monday-holiday-treasures/
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Free Fiction Monday: Crunchers, Inc
Edith works for Number Crunchers Incorporated. Her job? Determine the monetary worth of each human being. But her corporation faces a nemesis—the EISHies. The ridiculously sentimental organization sabotages Crunchers, Inc. and other places just like it. Edith must discover how the EISHies…
https://kriswrites.com/2025/11/10/free-fiction-monday-crunchers-inc/
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Free Fiction Monday: The Light in Whale Cove
Sheriff Dan Retsler finally believes in magic. His experiences in Whale Rock make magic impossible to ignore. But Retsler never signed up for magic, so he plans to leave Whale Rock. His successor arrives just as the ghosts return to the lighthouse. Now, he must train a newcomer…
https://kriswrites.com/2025/11/03/free-fiction-monday-the-light-in-whale-cove/
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Free Fiction Monday: Blazing Blue
Emily prepares for an epic Oregon Coast storm. But nothing can prepare her for the discovery from her past that waits to be revealed once she escapes the pelting rain and enters a local antique store—with a very distinctive frog on the sign. “Blazing Blue“ is available for one week on…
https://kriswrites.com/2025/10/27/free-fiction-monday/
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Free Fiction Monday: Dread Unlocks
In Los Angeles, everyone knows Ms. Tarbell dispels dread. She finds an amazing amount of it in that sunlight-filled city, but nothing like the unnamed horror she faces on her current case. This horror arrives in a van, along with cameras, an agenda, and the ability to change her…
https://kriswrites.com/2025/10/20/free-fiction-monday-dread-unlocks/
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Free Fiction Monday: The Hook
Urban legends draw inspiration from real events. Some people know that better than others. That story about the hook teenagers tell each other at parties? Turns out the story holds more truth than legend—just not in the way you’d expect. “The Hook“ is available for one week on this site. The ebook is…
https://kriswrites.com/2025/10/13/free-fiction-monday-the-hook/
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Free Fiction Monday: That Morning At The Hopkins Estate
A flare of light ignites a Fey attack on a sleepy coastal town in a character-stuffed thrill ride as only Kristine Kathryn Rusch can do. “That Morning At The Hopkins Estate“ is available for one week on this site. The ebook is available on all retail…
https://kriswrites.com/2025/10/06/free-fiction-monday-that-morning-at-the-hopkins-estate/
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Free Fiction Monday: Combat Medic
Berkeley, May, 1969—When former Army nurse Captain June “Eagle” Eagleton returned from Vietnam, she thought she left the war zone behind. But when the familiar sound of a helicopter wakes Eagle from sleep, she realizes she has awoken in a very different kind of war zone: one…
https://kriswrites.com/2025/09/29/free-fiction-monday-combat-medic/
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Free Fiction Monday: Harvest
The almanac determines traditions in Kerry’s family. Only her granddaughter Amanda doesn’t want to follow the almanac. And if Amanda resists, then the power, hidden inside those traditions, might destroy her—and everyone she loves. Chosen as one of the best stories of the year, “Harvest” evokes the…
https://kriswrites.com/2025/09/22/free-fiction-monday-harvest/
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Free Fiction Monday: Elegy for Piano and Three Voices
When Alzheimer’s takes Stacey’s mother, Stacey gives up everything—her career, her music—to take care of her. Until one lonely night, when caretaking becomes too much, Stacy sits at the piano and plays Bach. She hopes to escape into the comfort…
https://kriswrites.com/2025/09/15/free-fiction-monday-elegy-for-piano-and-three-voices/
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Free Fiction Monday: The Scottish Play
Portia uses her magic to solve problems—theatrical problems. She prefers to work alone, even though her two sisters possess magic, too. But her latest job, in London’s West End, poses problems not only because of the play being performed—the cursed Scottish Play (aka Macbeth)—but because…
https://kriswrites.com/2025/09/08/free-fiction-monday-the-scottish-play/
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Free Fiction Monday: Worlds Enough…And Time
Whenever things get rough, Roxanne escapes to other worlds. She possesses a talent that skips generations, a talent that no one else believes exists. Except her granddaughter Marissa, who exhibits the same talent. Marissa, who can open windows to other worlds with the…
https://kriswrites.com/2025/09/01/free-fiction-monday-worlds-enoughand-time/
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Free Fiction Monday: The Last Surviving Gondola Widow
In an alternate post-Civil War Chicago, the citizens still remember the day the Gondolas sent by the South died and the city burned—again. Lou, a Pinkerton detective, uses magic to hunt down the Gondola pilots, now called Gondola widows. She…
https://kriswrites.com/2025/08/25/free-fiction-monday-the-last-surviving-gondola-widow/
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Free Fiction Monday: Fit To Print
When veteran New York Times reporter Frank Butler vacations at his grandmother’s old house in Bonner Bay, Oregon, he ignores the town’s strange goings-on. The locals usually appreciate his discretion. Except this year. This year, everyone has an opinion about the new strangers in town, and no…
https://kriswrites.com/2025/08/18/free-fiction-monday-fit-to-print/
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Free Fiction Monday: Once on The Blue Moon
As Collette’s parents take her on an outdated “luxury” starliner called The Blue Moon to yet another boarding school, she sees this as just one more crappy turn of events. But when the guys with guns show up, she knows boarding school pales in comparison to whatever these guys plan to do to her—and to […]…
https://kriswrites.com/2025/08/11/36668/
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Free Fiction Monday: The Silence
Homicide Detective Spencer Gray knows he should feel grateful for the lack of work due to The Silence—two weeks without a murder in Manhattan. But he misses the action. More, something feels off. When one of his colleagues suggests a wager to see who can close the strangest case on his or her…
https://kriswrites.com/2025/08/04/free-fiction-monday-the-silence/
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Free Fiction Monday: Little Miracles
As a homicide detective, Frank deals with violent death every day. And his reaction to those deaths kills him by inches. Until his most recent case forces him to take a long, hard look at his emotional state. The murder scene’s only survivor might hold the clues Frank needs to solve the…
https://kriswrites.com/2025/07/28/free-fiction-monday-little-miracles/
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Free Fiction Monday: Elites
Rowena runs the House, a place for homeless Sky veterans. The House, open only to the women who compose the Elite Squad, has only a few rules: No names, no details, no weapons. The problem? Anything can become a weapon—even a toilet bowl scrubber. Even a word. Especially a word. A word…
https://kriswrites.com/2025/07/21/free-fiction-monday-elites/
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Free Fiction Monday: Spinning
Patricia Taylor’s spinning class instructor hates her. Maybe it’s the extra eighty pounds she carries on her frame. Maybe it’s the way she struggles while everyone else in class does just fine. But when her instructor ends up dead, Patricia has to deal with her feelings for him and…
https://kriswrites.com/2025/07/13/free-fiction-monday-spinning/
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