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. ❋ Yuki_onna (2009)

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. ❋ Yuki_onna (2006)

It's a rusalka Russian mermaid-siren things story, set in post-war St. Petersburg. ❋ Yuki_onna (2006)

Some were bleak, like the hunting down of a rusalka that murderously haunted Lake Ilmen. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1999)

After that, for a time during which time was not, she drifted like a rusalka beneath the water. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1989)

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. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1989)

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. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1988)

Roamers, a rusalka spirit of the dead and a plague of illness are all caught up in vengeful ❋ Deirdre Baker (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Will (2009)