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After a particularly brutal attack, Sydne needs physical therapy for her knee. The therapists try a new technique that involves repairing the damaged muscles, but the damaged emotions as well. Sydne hates the procedure. She hates the therapists more...
Includes bonus story, "Turbulence."
“Like early Ray Bradbury, Rusch has the ability to switch on a universal dark.”
—the London Times
Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s short fiction has won the Ellery Queen Readers’ Choice Award twice, and has been nominated for the Edgar, Shamus, Stoker, and Anthony Awards. Her novels, including the vampire novel, Sins of the Blood, appear under a variety of names.
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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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Physical Therapy - Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Physical Therapy
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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Turbulence
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Physical Therapy
Copyright © 2012 Kristine Kathryn Rusch
First published in Box of Delights, edited by John Kenny, Aeon Books, 2011
Turbulence
Copyright © 2012 Kristine Kathryn Rusch
First published by Asimov’s SF Magazine, August 2009.
Published by WMG Publishing
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Physical Therapy
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