«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 Mights: 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.