Paperback edition on sale October 24, 2006 (with contest winner's picture on cover!)

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• Introduction and story "Student of Ostriches"
  by Tamora Pierce, co-editor

• Afterword by Josepha Sherman, co-editor

Stories by:

• "Heartless" by Holly Black

• "Emerging Legacy" by Doranna Durgin

• "Devil Wind" by India Edghill

• "An Axe for Men" by Rosemary Edghill
  
  
   

• "Thunderbolt" by Esther Friesner

• "Serpent's Rock" by Laura Anne Gilman

• "Swords That Talk" by Brent Hartinger

• "Eli and the Dybbuk" by Janis Ian

• "The Hidden Warrior" by Margaret Mahy

• "Acts of Faith" by Lesley McBain

• "The Boy Who Cried 'Dragon!'" by Mike Resnick

• "The Gift of Rain Mountain" by Bruce Holland Rogers

• "Lioness" by Pamela F. Service

• "The Magestone" by S.M. and Jan Stirling