The Third Volume in the Acclaimed Series!
Volume 3 features dragons, fairies, cats, and more. Oh, so much more, including a talking oak tree named Fred. Rusch and Smith called this volume ‘Creatures, ‘ but the twenty acclaimed stories in this book go far beyond even that.
For more than four decades, New York Times and USA Today bestselling writers Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith wrote professional fantasy short stories that won awards and sold millions of copies.
Now, for the first time, they collect together 100 of their fantasy short stories into a five-volume set called Fantasies Collide. Fifty stories total from each author, with ten stories from Rusch and ten from Smith in every volume.
Don’t miss a volume full of twenty brilliant short stories full of creatures that only Rusch and Smith could bring to life.
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Dragons, Fairies, Cats and More… xv
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Ten Stories by Dean Wesley Smith xvii
CUTTING DOWN FRED 1
Dean Wesley Smith
PINK SHOES AND HOT CHOCOLATE 19
Dean Wesley Smith
MY SOCKS ROLLED DOWN 37
Dean Wesley Smith
CAT IN WAITING 49
Dean Wesley Smith
NOT SALABLE FOR SALE 61
Dean Wesley Smith
CAT IN THE AIR 77
Dean Wesley Smith
LONG DEAD NEW LOVE 91
Dean Wesley Smith
CAT IN A DIFFERENT PLACE 105
Dean Wesley Smith
CAT IN LOVE 117
Dean Wesley Smith
THE EMPTY MUMMY MURDERS 127
Dean Wesley Smith
Ten Stories by Kristine Kathryn Rusch 149
FLOWER FAIRIES 151
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
CHAMELEON 171
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
AFTER THE FALL 183
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
PUCKISH BEHAVIOR 211
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
THE DESTROYER 245
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
FAMILIAR TERRITORY 261
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
LIVING THE LEGEND 275
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
STRANGE CREATURES 311
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
HUMAN BUSINESS 345
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
DRAGON’S TOOTH 405
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
About the Author 463
About the Author 465
Expanded Copyright Information 473
लेखक के बारे में
Considered one of the most prolific writers working in modern fiction, USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith published almost two hundred novels in forty years, and hundreds and hundreds of short stories across many genres. At the moment he produces novels in several major series, including the time travel Thunder Mountain novels set in the Old West, the galaxy-spanning Seeders Universe series, the urban fantasy Ghost of a Chance series, a superhero series starring Poker Boy, and a mystery series featuring the retired detectives of the Cold Poker Gang.His monthly magazine, Smith’s Monthly, which consists of only his own fiction, premiered in October 2013 and offers readers more than 70, 000 words per issue, including a new and original novel every month.During his career, Dean also wrote a couple dozen Star Trek novels, the only two original Men in Black novels, Spider-Man and X-Men novels, plus novels set in gaming and television worlds. Writing with his wife Kristine Kathryn Rusch under the name Kathryn Wesley, he wrote the novel for the NBC miniseries The Tenth Kingdom and other books for Hallmark Hall of Fame movies.He wrote novels under dozens of pen names in the worlds of comic books and movies, including novelizations of almost a dozen films, from The Final Fantasy to Steel to Rundown.Dean also worked as a fiction editor off and on, starting at Pulphouse Publishing, then at VB Tech Journal, then Pocket Books, and now at WMG Publishing, where he and Kristine Kathryn Rusch serve as series editors for the acclaimed Fiction River anthology series, which launched in 2013. In 2018, WMG Publishing Inc. launched the first issue of the reincarnated Pulphouse Fiction Magazine, with Dean reprising his role as editor.For more information about Dean’s books and ongoing projects, please visit his website at www.deanwesleysmith.com and sign up for his newsletter.