Table of Contents
Introduction / Terri Windling and Ellen Datlow -- Words like pale stones / Nancy Kress -- Stronger than time / Patricia C. Wrede -- Somnus's fair maid / Ann Downer -- The frog king, or Iron Henry / Daniel Quinn -- Near-beauty / M.E. Beckett -- Ogre / Michael Kandel -- Can't catch me / Michael Cadnum -- Journeybread recipe / Lawrence Schimel -- The brown bear of Norway / Isabel Cole -- The goose girl / Tim Wynne-Jones -- Tattercoats / Midori Snyder -- Granny rumple / Jane Yolen -- The sawing boys / Howard Waldrop -- Godson / Roger Zelazny -- Ashputtle / Peter Straub -- Silver and gold / Ellen Steiber -- Sweet bruising skin / Storm Constantine -- The black swan / Susan Wade.