Continuing Education

by Kristine Smith

You’re never too old to learn….

A woman seeking a new direction in life returns to school, and learns lessons she never imagined.

The short story “Continuing Education” first appeared in The Modern Fae’s Guide to Surviving Humanity, edited by Joshua Palmatier and Patricia Bray.

24 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 6, 2012

About the author

Kristine Smith is the author of the Jani Kilian series and other science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories under her own name. Her fiction has been nominated for the Locus Award for First Novel, Philip K. Dick Memorial Award and the IAFA William L. Crawford Fantasy Award, and she was the 2001 winner of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Prior to becoming a full-time writer, she spent 26 years working in pharmaceutical product R&D. She was born in the Northeast, grew up in the South, and currently lives in the Midwest.

Kristine Smith has also written the supernatural thrillers GIDEON and JERICHO under the name Alex Gordon.


Photo by Joel Danto/Danto Photography