“El Regalo” by Peter S. Beagle. © 2006 Peter S. Beagle. Originally published in The Line Between (Tachyon Publications, 2006). Reprinted by permission of the Avicenna Development Corporation.
“Love is the Spell That Casts Out Fear” by Desirina Boskovich. © 2010 by Desirina Boskovich.
“The Secret of the Blue Star” by Marion Zimmer Bradley. © 1979 by Marion Zimmer Bradley. Originally published in Thieves’ World, ed. Robert Lynn Asprin (Ace, 1979). Reprinted by permission of the Marion Zimmer Bradley Literary Works Trust.
“Jamaica” by Orson Scott Card. © 2007 by Orson Scott Card. Originally published in Wizards, Inc., eds. Martin H. Greenberg & Loren L. Coleman (DAW, 2007). Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Cerile and the Journeyer” by Adam-Troy Castro. © 1995 by Adam-Troy Castro. Originally published in 100 Wicked Little Witches, eds. Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Robert H. Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg (Sterling, 1995). Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Trader” by Cinda Williams Chima. © 2010 by Cinda Williams Chima.
“John Uskglass and the Cumbrian Charcoal Burner” by Susanna Clarke. © 2006 Susanna Clarke. Originally published in The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories (Bloomsbury, 2006). Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Feeding the Feral Children” by David Farland. © 2010 by David Farland.
“The Tiger by Its Tail” by C.C. Finlay. © 2010 by C.C. Finlay.
“The Sorcerer Minus” by Jeffrey Ford. © 2010 by Jeffrey Ford.
“The Thirteen Texts of Arthyria” by John R. Fultz. © 2010 by John R. Fultz.
“How to Sell the Ponti Bridge” by Neil Gaiman. © 1985 by Neil Gaiman. Originally published in Imagine #24, March 1985. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Street Wizard” by Simon R. Green. © 2010 by Simon R. Green.
“Endgame” by Lev Grossman. © 2010 by Lev Grossman. Originally published on Borders.com. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Ereshkigal Working” by Jonathan L. Howard. © 2010 by Jonathan L. Howard.
“The Orange-Tree Sacrifice” by Vylar Kaftan. © 2010 by Vylar Kaftan.
“Card Sharp” by Rajan Khanna. © 2010 by Rajan Khanna.
“Family Tree” by David Barr Kirtley. © 2010 by David Barr Kirtley.
“The Word of Unbinding” by Ursula K. Le Guin. © 1964, 1992 by Ursula K. Le Guin. First appeared in Fantastic, January 1964; from The Wind’s Twelve Quarters (Harper & Rowe, 1975); reprinted by permission of the author and the author’s agents, the Virginia Kidd Agency, Inc.
“Too Fatal a Poison” by Krista Hoeppner Leahy. © 2010 by Krista Hoeppner Leahy.
“Counting the Shapes” by Yoon Ha Lee. © 2001 by Yoon Ha Lee. Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 2001. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Wizards of Perfil” by Kelly Link. © 2006 by Kelly Link. Originally published in Firebirds Rising: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction and Fantasy, ed. Sharyn November (Firebird, 2006). Reprinted by permission of the author.
“In the Lost Lands” by George R. R. Martin. © 1982 by George R. R. Martin. Originally published in Amazons II, ed. by Jessica Amanda Salmonson (Daw 1982). Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Go-Slow” by Nnedi Okorafor. © 2010 by Nnedi Okorafor.
“Mommy Issues of the Dead” by T.A. Pratt. © 2010 by T.A. Pratt.
“Winter Solstice” by Mike Resnick. © 1991 by Mike Resnick. Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October/November, 1991. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Wizard’s Apprentice” by Delia Sherman. © 2009 by Delia Sherman. Originally published in Troll’s Eye View: A Book of Villainous Fairy Tale, eds. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling (Viking, 2009). Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” by Robert Silverberg. © 2004 by Agberg, Ltd. Originally published in Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy, ed. Al Sarrantonio (ROC 2004). Reprinted by permission of the author.
“One-Click Banishment” by Jeremiah Tolbert. © 2010 by Jeremiah Tolbert.
“So Deep That the Bottom Could Not Be Seen” by Genevieve Valentine. © 2010 by Genevieve Valentine.
“The Secret of Calling Rabbits” by Wendy Wagner. © 2010 by Wendy Wagner.
“The Magician and the Maid and Other Stories” by Christie Yant. © 2010 by Christie Yant.