«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 С. C. Finlay. © 2010 by С. 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.