Tales From the Liminal
Delightfully strange. Endlessly thought-provoking.
In this collection of fifteen curious and delightful short stories, you never know who you’re going to meet or where you’re going to end up. You can be certain, however, that you’ll always find yourself smack dab in the middle of some befuddling predicament of existence.
Using humor and horror, satire and allegory, fabulism and realism, Tales From the Liminal takes you for an extraordinary ride, submerging you in spaces where anything is possible, especially transformation.
“It’s a breed of storytelling that encases an entire cosmos within a compact form, with prose that pulses with life, with tableaus that transfix the imagination with glimmers of divine order in an emotionally turbulent landscape…tinted by the surreal.” —Timothy Cech, fiction editor, Reed Magazine
“A sometimes dizzying, eclectic look at the hunger of the human soul for more. The collection at times feels like embodied philosophy, with perspectives contending. The images, at times, are almost surreal. They stay with you after reading, stirring up timeless questions you’ve forgotten, or the unformed whispers of questions you haven’t yet articulated.”
— Dr. Matthew Flaherty, Literature Faculty, Bard High School, Early College Baltimore
Of Beginnings and Ends
Winner of the Soul-Making Keats Literary Award
In every ending waits a new beginning.
Evy has always been able to feel the sorrow hiding in others. One day, she reaches out to a stranger drowning in his grief and is whisked away to the vast and luminous Hall of Beginnings and Ends.
The hall demands a choice. Evy must pass through a mist-shrouded arch to her best path forward or through a side door offering her a detour. Either way, pain awaits—the crucible of transformation or the slow decay of refusing to change.
Across the years, Evy returns to the hall without warning, always met with the same demand. Choose. Each time, she is plunged into strange realms uncomfortably familiar, where her hopes and fears, beliefs and doubts take shape as uncanny landscapes and characters who seem to know her better than she knows herself.
Witty, numinous, and deeply human, Of Beginnings and Ends is a reckoning with the painful crossroads of existence, and an ode to the courage it takes to embrace every ending as the threshold of a new beginning.
Coming September 8th - Deuxmers
Tell the story of your soul
Creative Practice to Honor Your Becoming
Every life contains a story worth telling. Not the résumé version, but the real one—the one shaped by loss and longing, crossings and arrivals, beginnings and ends. A telography is the telling of that deeper journey, and
Tell the Story of Your Soul will help you create your own.
Through Soul Discovery sessions, you’ll delve into the liminal passages of your life, reflecting not only on what happened, but on what it meant for your becoming. Through Story Crafting sessions, you’ll shape those turning points into a soul-journey narrative using words, images, music, or whatever form feels true to you. You will tell your story for yourself first, so that you can tell it in freedom and truth. Whether you ever share it with anyone else is entirely up to you.
S. K. Kruse developed Tell the Story of Your Soul after writing her Soul-Making Keats Literary Award-winning telography Of Beginnings and Ends. She found the process to be rich with insight, catharsis, and genuine healing, and wanted to help others experience the same.
Print journal available August, 2026. Online course available free through October 20th.
betwixt & Between: Discovering the Gift of the LIminal
Host a discussion! Teach a class! Take advantage of this free eight-module introduction to the liminal. Recourse packet includes tools for teachers and group facilitators.
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“If this imaginative world of S. K. Kruse creates more perplexity than certainty, literary sojourners should know that they have arrived in the right place. I know that happened for my students as we read, studied, and discussed this most delightful book.”
— Dr. Timothy Carson, Professor of Liminal Studies, Honors College University of Missouri
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Our Esteemed Judges have announced the winners of the 4th Annual Liminal Essay Contest!
Essay Contest Winners discuss liminality in Dr. Timothy Carson’s Honors Class, University of Missouri
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S. K. Kruse is available for presentations, workshops, retreats, classroom visits, and discussions exploring liminality, creativity, storytelling, and the life of the soul.
Available presentations and workshops include:
Betwixt & Between: Discovering the Gift of the Liminal
The Art of the Liminal
Tell the Story of Your Soul
Tales From the Liminal
Of Beginnings and Ends