The hunter's wife / James Frenkel -- The cowardly coffin / Marin Sorescu -- In these final days of sales / Steve Rasnic Tem -- To dream of white horses / June Considine -- Skin / Charlee Jacob -- Prussian snowdrops / Marion Arnott -- The honeyed knot / Jeffrey Ford -- Timmy Gobels bug jar / The God of dark laughter / Michael Chabon -- The adolescence of Orpheus / Kurt Leland -- Trading hearts at the Half Kaffe Cafe / Charles de Lint -- Louise's ghost / Kelly Link -- Fairy tale Pantoum / Ellen Wernecke -- The puppet and the train / Scott Thomas -- Crocodile lady / Christopher Fowler -- The barbarian and the queen: thirteen views / Jane Yolen -- Becoming bird / Bob Hicok -- Sop doll / Milbre Burch -- Plenty / Christopher Barzak -- The bones of the earth / Ursula K. Le Guin -- What the story weaves, the spinner tells / Terry Blackhawk -- Onion / Caitlin R. Kiernan -- Where the woodbine twineth / Norman Partridge -- Struwwelpeter / Glen Hirshberg -- Outfangthief / Gala Blau -- Rites: cleaning the last bones / Gavin J. Grant -- Watch me when I sleep / Jean-Claude Dunyach -- The tattoo artist / Patrick Roscoe -- Cleopatra Brimstone / Elizabeth Hand -- Grass / Lawrence Miles -- If death, a preprimer / Sandra J. Lindow -- The bird catcher / S. P. Somtow -- Black dust / Graham Joyce -- Annabelle's Alphabet / Tim Pratt -- Tom Brightwind, or, How the fairy bridge was built at Thoresby / Susanna Clarke -- Gestella / Susan Palwick -- The legend / Ray Gonzalez -- Oh, glorious sight / Tanya Huff -- Home cooking / Daniel Ulanovsky Sack -- Queen / Gene Wolfe -- The project / Carol Emshwiller -- The man in the comic shop / Liz Lochhead -- Strange things about birds / Scott Thomas -- What we did that summer / Kathe Koja and Barry N. Malzberg -- Aesculapius in the underworld / Ryan G. Van Cleave -- Scarecrow / Gregory Maguire -- The Bockles / Melissa Hardy -- His own back yard / James P. Blaylock.