Contents (view Concise Listing)

• Fat Is Not a Fairy Tale • poem by Jane Yolen
• Worse Than the Curse • novelette by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
• A Hero, Plain and Simple • (1995) • short story by Ralph Gamelli
• Seliki • short story by Cynthia McQuillin
• The Blood Orange Tree • short story by Marian Crane
• Eater • short story by Jon Hansen
• Demon Bone • short story by Teresa Noelle Roberts
• The Fat Cats' Tale • short story by Martha A. Compton
• Vadija • short story by Catherine Lundoff
• Lady Emerdirael's Rescue • short story by Lisa Deason
• The Wife of Ben-Y-Ghloe • short story by Laura J. Underwood
• Chance Hospitality • short story by Mike C. Baker and Carol Y. Huber
• The Fat Magician • short story by Gene Wolfe
• The Search for a Sipping House • short story by Joette Rozanski [as by Joette M. Rozanski]
• A Taste of Song • short story by K. D. Wentworth
• Casting Against Type • short story by Jody Lynn Nye
• Meluse's Counsel • short story by Connie Wilkins
• Polyformus Perfectus • short story by Paula L. Fleming
• Eleven to Seven • short story by Bradley H. Sinor
• Last Chance Gravity Fill Station • short story by Celeste Allen
• Nuclear Winter • short story by Selina Rosen
• The Djinn Game • short story by Patrice Sarath [as by Patrice E. Sarath]
• Stoop Ladies • short story by Barbara Krasnoff
• Naratha's Shadow • [Liaden Universe short fiction] • novelette by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
• Foreword (Such a Pretty Face) • essay by Judy Sullivan
• Introduction (Such a Pretty Face) • essay by Lee Martindale