Fun House Mirrors

By Kristine Kathryn Rusch

When Cassandra's career in politics takes a turn she doesn't expect, she struggles to accept her new reality.

So, when she starts seeing things in mirrors that shouldn't appear, Cassandra knows what she sees could prove gift or curse. Or both.

"Rusch is a great storyteller."

—RT Book Reviews

• Language: English
• Publisher: WMG Publishing
• Release date: Apr 23, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201975227

Kristine Kathryn Rusch

USA Today bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch writes in almost every genre. Generally, she uses her real name (Rusch) for most of her writing. Under that name, she publishes bestselling science fiction and fantasy, award-winning mysteries, acclaimed mainstream fiction, controversial nonfiction, and the occasional romance. Her novels have made bestseller lists around the world and her short fiction has appeared in eighteen best of the year collections. She has won more than twenty-five awards for her fiction, including the Hugo, Le Prix Imaginales, the Asimov’s Readers Choice award, and the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Readers Choice Award. Publications from The Chicago Tribune to Booklist have included her Kris Nelscott mystery novels in their top-ten-best mystery novels of the year. The Nelscott books have received nominations for almost every award in the mystery field, including the best novel Edgar Award, and the Shamus Award. She writes goofy romance novels as award-winner Kristine Grayson, romantic suspense as Kristine Dexter, and futuristic sf as Kris DeLake.  She also edits. Beginning with work at the innovative publishing company, Pulphouse, followed by her award-winning tenure at The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, she took fifteen years off before returning to editing with the original anthology series Fiction River, published by WMG Publishing. She acts as series editor with her husband, writer Dean Wesley Smith, and edits at least two anthologies in the series per year on her own. To keep up with everything she does, go to kriswrites.com and sign up for her newsletter. To track her many pen names and series, see their individual websites (krisnelscott.com, kristinegrayson.com, krisdelake.com, retrievalartist.com, divingintothewreck.com). She lives and occasionally sleeps in Oregon.

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Fun House Mirrors

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Kristine Kathryn Rush

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Fun House Mirrors

It felt like a death. That’s the only way I can explain it. It felt like part of me died that night—something vibrant, something whole. Something completely and totally me. Something I can’t access anymore.

And left me with something else. Something I can’t exactly define, something I never tell anyone about.

Yet here I am, writing it down. Because at some point, the secret has to out. At some point, someone has to know.

And at some point, I actually will die. And people will speculate. They’ll say, She always seemed to have an uncanny ability to see the future. And I won’t be there to respond, That’s sure as hell a lot better than taking a deep and vicious look into the past.

If you asked me about the beginning, I wouldn’t be able to answer you. Was it first grade when I was Little Miss Know-It-All? Let’s ask Cassie, because Cassie will do anything to get attention. How about middle school, when I actually won my first class presidency? God, Cassie, go away. I’ll vote for you, if you just leave me alone.

Or that social science teacher, maybe, the one who told me over and over that I had the