rusalka

• “To locate the reader in the story you cannot just start talking about rusalka and allow the reader to figure out slowly whether the real world changed only subtly to have a rusalka in it or a magical world changed only subtly to have medical students in it.”

  Fairyland Chapter Eight!

• “This is a rusalka story, not a fairy tale retelling per se but something that, in the end, came out very personal and intimate and different than most of what I have written, short story-wise.”

  Things to Be Proud Of

• “It's a rusalka Russian mermaid-siren things story, set in post-war St. Petersburg.”

  On y Va

• “Some were bleak, like the hunting down of a rusalka that murderously haunted Lake Ilmen.”

  Operation Luna

• “Certain of their people flitted through, El-ena, shrewish Marina, plump and placid Yuliana, Bishop Simeon grave behind his huge bush of beard-dead, today or years since, ghosts, she herself perhaps dead too but denied quietness, a rusalka creeping back to its river.”

  The Boat of a Million Years

• “Certain of their people flitted through, El-ena, shrewish Marina, plump and placid Yuliana, Bishop Simeon grave behind his huge bush of beard'dead, today THE BOAT OF A MILLION YEARS or years since, ghosts, she herself perhaps dead too but denied quietness, a rusalka creeping back to its river.”

  The Boat of a Million Years

• “After that, for a time during which time was not, she drifted like a rusalka beneath the water.”

  The Boat of a Million Years

• “Roamers, a rusalka spirit of the dead and a plague of illness are all caught up in vengeful”

  Thestar.com - Home Page

• “Eveshka, the former rusalka, is now married to Pyetr and living with him and his friend Sasha, the half-taught wizard, and she is in the grip of some dark magic.”

  Take Joy!

• “Since it descends from the Slavic tradition, there’s a real kick to the story—no happy ending a la Disney and the consequences for Rusalka a rusalka in Czech is a wave in a lake or river that flashes and glitters in the moonlight once she fails to connect successfully with the human world are not pleasant.”

  Archive 2009-03-01

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