Rust: Season 1, Episode 3

Rust #1.3

by Christopher Ruz

Kimberly Archer has tried to escape Rustwood twice, and twice she's been turned back. But this time, she has a foolproof plan. Forget subtlety - she's headed straight over the mountains. By the time Goodwell and her fake husband know she's gone, she'll be halfway to New York.

But there's a hitch. Bo Tuscon, the sick nurse from St Jeremiah's Hospital, is on her tail. And Fitch can't come to her rescue either. He's been pursued across town by creatures wearing bug-eye sunglasses, creatures intent on dragging him back to their master, the beast in the cracks...

Rust is a serial small-town horror story in the style of Cronenberg, Lynch and King. The first five episodes are now now available in a discount collection entitled SEASON ONE.

40 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 11, 2013

About the author

Christopher Ruz fell in love with dark fiction when a worn copy of Pet Semetary caught his eye at a local flea market. He bought it with his pocket money and hid it under his bed so his parents wouldn’t see. He was just eight years old and had no idea what he was getting into.

Poor kid.

He has written and published horror, epic fantasy, science fiction, and children's choose-your-own-adventure books. His debut trad-pub novel, a supernatural horror story set in the halls of the world’s weirdest hedge fund, arrives mid-2027.

His best known works are The Ragged Blade (Parvus Press, 2019) and his ongoing horror series Rust. Meanwhile, he publishes the Olesia Anderson series of pulpy spy novellas under the pseudonym D.D. Marks, and writes Adventure Coloring Books for Insight Editions.

He has sold stories to Asimov's Magazine, Andromeda Spaceways and Apollo’s Daughters, has beaten the grueling Immerse or Die challenge twice, and was a finalist in the 2017 Aurealis Awards.

When not writing, Ruz teaches art and design at Melbourne high schools.