Fifteen Minutes at Mercy General

An emergency: a bleeding teenage girl in ripped clothes on a gurney in a hospital corridor, her mother hastily brought in by the investigating police officer. An emergency, a girl, a family, and a crime so horrible that no one understands until it’s too late…

“Fifteen Minutes at Mercy General,” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch was first published in South From Midnight, edited by Richard Gilliam, Martin H. Greenberg, and Thomas A. Hanlon, Southern Fried Press in conjunction with the World Fantasy Con, 1994.

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. For more information on her work, go to kristinekathrynrusch.com.

If you liked “Fifteen Minutes at Mercy General,” you might enjoy these stories and collections by Kristine Kathryn Rusch:

Façade
Sins of the Blood
The Thrill of the Hunt
Victims
The Women of Whale Rock