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Free Fiction Monday: Nutball Season
According to Officer Nick Mantino, Nutball Season runs from Halloween to Christmas. This Christmas season, he sees more than his usual number of nutballs. Like the geezer who thinks he has been cast in Miracle on 34th Street. And Mrs. Billings, who tells everyone she will shoot Santa if he…
https://kriswrites.com/2025/12/22/free-fiction-monday-nutball-season/
#Fantasy #freefiction #FreeFictionMondays #Holiday #MondayFictionPost
Free Fiction Monday: The Moorhead House
Dusty’s Cleaning specializes in cleaning houses where horrible things happen. Suicides, murders, Dusty’s seen them all. But she can’t forget the scene at the Moorhead House. So, when Dusty receives an invitation to a Christmas party being held at the Moorhead House, she gets to…
https://kriswrites.com/2025/12/08/free-fiction-monday-the-moorhead-house/
#freefiction #FreeFictionMondays #MondayFictionPost #Mysteries #Christmas
Free Fiction Monday: Doubting Thomas
Six-year-old Tommy Ulrick saw Santas enter the Sutter house on Christmas Eve, the night the house got robbed. Tommy said Santa stole. No one believed him, thinking robbers dressed as Santa emptied that house. But Tommy believed. And when Tommy turns thirty—after losing family and friends—he…
https://kriswrites.com/2025/12/01/free-fiction-monday-doubting-thomas/
#freefiction #FreeFictionMondays #MondayFictionPost #belief #Christmas
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/
#freefiction #FreeFictionMondays #MondayFictionPost #1984 #Corporations
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/
#freefiction #FreeFictionMondays #MondayFictionPost #dark #Fantasy
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/
#freefiction #FreeFictionMondays #MondayFictionPost #contemporaryfantasy #contemporaryromance
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/
#freefiction #FreeFictionMondays #MondayFictionPost #darkfantasy #darkurbanparanormal
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/
#freefiction #FreeFictionMondays #MondayFictionPost #crime #Halloween
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/
#freefiction #FreeFictionMondays #MondayFictionPost #EpicFantasy #Fey
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/
#freefiction #FreeFictionMondays #MondayFictionPost #Historicalfiction #historicalmystery
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/
#freefiction #FreeFictionMondays #MondayFictionPost #darkfantasy #family
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/
#freefiction #FreeFictionMondays #MondayFictionPost #AlzheimersDisease #caretakers
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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/
#freefiction #FreeFictionMondays #MondayFictionPost #british #curses
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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/
#freefiction #FreeFictionMondays #MondayFictionPost #alternateworlds #family
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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/
#freefiction #FreeFictionMondays #MondayFictionPost #alternativehistory #CivilWar
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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/
#freefiction #FreeFictionMondays #MondayFictionPost #alienencounter #aliens
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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/
#freefiction #FreeFictionMondays #MondayFictionPost #ScienceFiction #SpaceOpera
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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/
#freefiction #FreeFictionMondays #MondayFictionPost #crimestory #disturbing
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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/
#freefiction #FreeFictionMondays #MondayFictionPost #catcrimes #catmystery
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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/
#freefiction #FreeFictionMondays #MondayFictionPost #geneticengineering #hardsciencefiction
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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/
#freefiction #FreeFictionMondays #MondayFictionPost #bestmystery #ElleryQueenMysteryMagazine
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Free Fiction Monday: Songbirds
Prince Tadeo has his heart set on a Songbird for the coronation. He sends Reynaldo, the best magic hunter in the business, after it. Once upon a time, Songbirds served the king. Now Reynaldo must convince one Songbird to return. Just one. Or he will use devastating magic to make sure she…
https://kriswrites.com/2025/07/07/free-fiction-monday-songbirds/
#freefiction #FreeFictionMondays #MondayFictionPost #elvesfaemysterymagicepic #Fantasy
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Free Fiction Monday: When Thomas Jefferson Dined Alone
When Living History Professor Kimber Lawson’s least favorite student brings her a report of Mary Todd Lincoln conducting séances in the White House, Kimber brushes it off. But then more reports come to her attention—of historical figures hearing voices,…
https://kriswrites.com/2025/06/30/free-fiction-monday-when-thomas-jefferson-dined-alone/
#freefiction #FreeFictionMondays #MondayFictionPost #ghost #History
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Free Fiction Monday: The Amazing Quizmo
At night, Darren dons his secret identity. He becomes the Amazing Quizmo, the Great God of Answers. He presides over bar trivia contests and no one can beat him. Until a girl appears. A pretty girl. A very pretty girl who just might be smarter than Darren. And for Darren, that just won’t do.
https://kriswrites.com/2025/06/23/free-fiction-monday/
#FreeFictionMondays #freenonfiction #MondayFictionPost #competition #contemporary
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Free Fiction Monday: The Bride Case
She looks innocent—a bride in a frilly white dress on her way to her wedding. Until she curses out a parking meter, and heads, angrily, into the courthouse. One jaded defense attorney notices her, but only as a curiosity. He saw brides every day in Las Vegas. He has no idea that, in the…
https://kriswrites.com/2025/06/16/free-fiction-monday-the-bride-case/
#freefiction #FreeFictionMondays #MondayFictionPost #crimefiction #lawyer
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Free Fiction Monday: Something Blue
For Amelia’s second marriage, Gram gives her a visit to a wedding counselor. Not a marriage counselor, but someone who will advise how to achieve a perfect marriage through the perfect ceremony. Superstitious nonsense, Amelia thinks, although she doesn’t want to offend Gram. But as the meeting…
https://kriswrites.com/2025/06/09/free-fiction-monday-something-blue/
#freefiction #FreeFictionMondays #MondayFictionPost #divorce #literary
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Free Fiction Monday: The Poop Thief
Portia Meadows runs one of the few pet stores that sells familiars to the magical. Familiars—delicate, moody creatures—keep magic clean and pure. To lose a familiar means losing magic. And on a bright afternoon, Portia’s assistant discovers that something essential has disappeared, threatening not just the…
https://kriswrites.com/2025/06/02/free-fiction-monday/
#freefiction #FreeFictionMondays #MondayFictionPost #Fantasy #mystery
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Free Fiction Monday: The Demise of Snot Rocket
All serious runners know about snot rockets. At least in pre-pandemic times, they did. But one particularly talented runner relishes snot rockets more than others. When he turns up dead, the list of potential murderers runs longer than the list of medals he collected over the years. But when…
https://kriswrites.com/2025/05/26/free-fiction-monday-2/
#freefiction #FreeFictionMondays #MondayFictionPost #collectibles #crime
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Free Fiction Monday: Patriotic Gestures
Crime scene investigator Pamela Kinney hears the bad guys outside her house and smells smoke, but only realizes the next morning the crime they committed—burning the flag that had covered her daughter’s casket. Her police…
https://kriswrites.com/2025/05/19/free-fiction-monday-patriotic-gestures/
#freefiction #FreeFictionMondays #MondayFictionPost #1960sUnitedStatesprotestingGulfWarmilitaryAmericanflagburningforensics #crime
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Free Fiction Monday: Red Letter Day
Graduation Day at Barack Obama High School. The day the Red Letters arrive. The day that students get a glimpse into their own future. But a handful never get a letter, and no one knows why. One teacher comes up with an idea though: a teacher who never got a Red Letter herself, a teacher…
https://kriswrites.com/2025/05/12/free-fiction-monday-red-letter-day/
#freefiction #FreeFictionMondays #MondayFictionPost #awardwinner #graduation
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Free Fiction Monday: Sob Sisters
Madison, Wisconsin, 1972—When Detective Hank Kaplan calls Valentina Wilson to a crime scene, she wonders why. She soon finds more questions than answers in a secret room belonging to a wealthy female philanthropist, whose brutal murder the police hastily cover up. Val’s search for the truth…
https://kriswrites.com/2025/04/07/free-fiction-monday-sob-sisters/
#freefiction #FreeFictionMondays #KrisNelscott #MondayFictionPost #Protectors
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