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• From the Books of Alice Redfearn • short story by Gary A. Braunbeck (variant of From the Books of Alice Redfearn: A Didactic Parable 1997) [as by Gary Braunbeck]
• Crimson Heart • short story by Douglas E. Wright
• Baby Girl • (2002) • short story by Brian Knight
• Festival of the Jackal • (1990) • short story by Stephen Mark Rainey (variant of Festival of the Jackal (Off Broadway))
• Rejection Slips the Mind • short story by Eric Enck
• The Longmarsh Witch • short story by J. G. Faherty
• Withered • short story by Brian Youndt
• Ashes to Ashes • (2003) • short story by Amy Grech
• Stuart • short story by Cassandra Lee
• Vomit Baby • short story by Garry Charles
• Red Cap • short story by Tim Deal
• Opportunity Knocks • short story by Sheryl Nantus
• The Pharaoh's Revenge • short story by Paul A. Freeman
• All the World Is Watching • short story by Sara Creasy
• Twitch • short story by D. W. Green
• Children of the White Star • short story by Michael R. Colangelo
• War and Pieces • short story by J. Travis Grundon
• Split Decision • short story by Mark Tullius
• Birthmark • short story by Steve Dean
• Dance of the Blue Lady • (2005) • short story by Gene O'Neill
• Glamour Girl • short story by Benjamin Bussey
• Flan • short story by Aaron Gudmunson
• The Chosen One • short story by Jimmy Gillentine and Donnete Smith
• Dragon Wings & Faire Rings • short story by Marie Pacha
• False Intruder • short story by Joseph McGee
• The Rules • short story by R. Scott McCoy
• Light • short story by Alice Loweecey
• Catch Your Death • short story by Dave Rex
• The Seventh Demon • short story by Randy Chandler
• The Tycoon • short story by Sally Quilford
• Sisters • short story by Monica J. O'Rourke
• Talents • short story by John Grover
• A Fidus Aranea • short story by Kevin I. Obrien
• The Roadie • short story by Michael A. Beaudry
• Meetings • short story by Mari Adkins
• Borrowed Time • (2007) • short story by Gustavo Bondoni
• The Theatre • short story by Kevin McLeoud
• The Grass Is Always Greener • (1999) • short story by Martin Owton
• Feats of Magnificence • short story by Erik Smetana
• Electric Jesus and the Living Dead • (2001) • short story by Jeremy Zoss
• Dreamstalker • short story by Colin Harvey
• Bob's Spares & Repairs • short story by Cate Gardner [as by Catherine J. Gardner]
• The Accursed Bird • short story by David Mohan
• The Caregiver • short story by Marcie Lynn Tentchoff
• Rodeo Day • short story by Eric Christ
• Lover Unseen • (2003) • short story by Ken Goldman
• Ego Alien • short story by Lisa Morton (variant of A New Force of Nature 1999)
• Memory Lane • short story by Natalie L. Sin
• Dead Meat • short story by Guy Anthony De Marco
• Culverin • short story by William Blake Vogel, III
• Fairy Fort • (2004) • short story by Peadar Ò Guilin
• The Unmasking • short story by William Bolen
• Editors & Preditors • short story by Mark Boss
• Letters to the Editor • short story by Helen Taylor
• The Reunion • short story by Karen L. Newman
• Red Rose for Groucho • short story by Jenny Orosel
• The Final Quarter • short story by Jeff Parish
• Schrodinger's Cat • short story by G. George Taylor
• Little Death • short story by Christopher Treagus
• Beyond the Skylift • short story by Lisa Cavalear
• Drowning Ship • short story by A. J. Brown
• The Wood Witch's Tale • short story by Jill Elaine Hughes (variant of The Wood-Witch's Tale 2005)
• The Box • short story by Matther Pierce
• So You Want to Be a Vampire? • short story by Rick Taubold
• A Matrix of Angels • short story by Christopher Conlon
• Deadly Mistique • short story by Darrel Joyce
• Distractions • (2001) • short story by Mark Leslie
• A Visit from a Friend • short story by Terrie Leigh Relf
• Mrs. Esserman's Eggs • short story by Ellen Meister
• Inherit the Earth • short story by Dominic McDonagh
• No Thanks • short story by Melissa Mead