19 of the best up-and-coming poets, artists, and short fiction writers in the speculative genres take you on a magical and disturbing journey. A purse-napper's easy money becomes something else entirely when he steals the bag of three mysterious old ladies in Tim Pratt's poem "Clutch-Purse." You thought you understood the story of Cinderella, but maybe the truth isn't for kids, as we discover in the poem "Shoes" by Tracina Jackson-Adams. David Kopaska-Merkel gives a modern twist to ancient African folk-tales in his short-story "More Talk." Michael Lohr's poetry brings new mysticism to Indonesian and Micronesian dragon myths. And while Roger Dutcher will make you believe that the only way to recapture our true magic is the future, Tyree Campbell and Marcie Lynn Tentchoff will make you believe that the magic of the past isn't gone at all. Exquisite images by such established artists as Cathy Buburuz, s.c virtes, and Marge Simon, and newly discovered talents like Clinton O'Dell, Dan Scott, and Judy Gorton join the mysterious illustrators JAC and 7ARS to make this a collection you won't want to miss!

Cathy Buburuz
Tyree Campbell
Jennifer Cawthorne
Erin Donahoe
Roger Dutcher
Judy Gorton
Tracina Jackson-Adams
Michael Lohr
Clinton O?Dell
Tim Pratt
T. Santitoro
Dan Scott
Heather Shaw
Keith Sikora
Marge Ballif Simon
Marcie Lynn Tentchoff
S.C. Virtes
Ivy Winning
James B. Baker