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Beagle --\r\nThe hunt of the unicorn / Ellen Kushner --\r\nMore tomorrow / Michael Marshall Smith --\r\nPenguins for lunch / Scott Bradfield --\r\nEther OR / Ursula K. Le Guin --\r\nPaper lantern / Stuart Dybek --\r\n[Lunch at the Gotham cafe\u0301](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19781075W) / Stephen King --\r\nQueen of knives (poem) / Neil Gaiman --\r\nDragon-rain / Eileen Kernaghan --\r\nLlantos de la Llorona: warnings from the wailer (poem) / Pat Mora --\r\nToo short a death / Peter Crowther --\r\nThe James Dean garage band / Rick Moody --\r\nBecause of dust / Christopher Kenworthy --\r\nLoop / Douglas E. Winter --\r\nLa loma, la luna / Sue Kepros Hartman --\r\nWomen's stories (poem) / Jane Yolen --\r\nSwan/princess (poem) / Jane Yolen --\r\nSwitch / Lucy Taylor --\r\nScaring the train / Terry Dowling --\r\nBlood knot / Steve Rasnic Tem --\r\nThe girl who married the reindeer (poem) / Eile\u0301an Ni\u0301 Chuilleana\u0301in --\r\nThe otter woman (poem) / Mary O'Malley --\r\nResolve and resistance / S.N. Dyer --\r\nLa dame / Tanith Lee --\r\nCirce's power (poem) / Louise Glu\u0308ck --\r\nDragon's fin soup / S.P. Somtow --\r\nThe granddaughter / Vivian Vande Velde --\r\nDaphne and Laura and so forth (poem) / Margaret Atwood --\r\nA lamia in the Ce\u0301vennes / A.S. Byatt --\r\nThe guilty party / Susan Moody --\r\nShe's not there / Pat Cadigan --\r\nThe white road (poem) / Neil Gaiman --\r\nRefrigerator heaven / David J. Schow --\r\nAfter the elephant ballet / Gary A. Braunbeck --\r\nHenry V, part 2 / Marcia Guthridge --\r\nMrs. Greasy / Robert Reed --\r\n############## / Joyce Carol Oates --\r\nThe printer's daughter / Delia Sherman --\r\nPrayer (poem) / Nancy Willard --\r\nJacob and the angel (poem) / Jane Yolen --\r\nThe lion and the lark / Patricia A. McKillip --\r\nHonorable mentions.", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL31853A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}, {"author": {"key": "/authors/OL2705584A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}, {"author": {"key": "/authors/OL1654607A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}, {"author": {"key": "/authors/OL6730305A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}, {"author": {"key": "/authors/OL25322A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}, {"author": {"key": "/authors/OL218171A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}, {"author": {"key": "/authors/OL3023956A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}, {"author": {"key": "/authors/OL216384A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}, {"author": {"key": "/authors/OL26165A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}, {"author": {"key": "/authors/OL579177A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}, {"author": {"key": "/authors/OL220575A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}, {"author": {"key": "/authors/OL446573A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}, {"author": {"key": "/authors/OL31353A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}, {"author": {"key": "/authors/OL894547A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}, {"author": {"key": "/authors/OL19981A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}, {"author": {"key": "/authors/OL53305A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}, {"author": {"key": "/authors/OL506122A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}, {"author": {"key": "/authors/OL223189A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}, {"author": {"key": "/authors/OL2711145A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}, {"author": {"key": "/authors/OL534478A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}, {"author": {"key": "/authors/OL36663A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}, {"author": {"key": "/authors/OL28280A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}, {"author": {"key": "/authors/OL9119100A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}, {"author": {"key": "/authors/OL18722A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}, {"author": {"key": "/authors/OL5542340A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}, {"author": {"key": "/authors/OL2835215A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}, {"author": {"key": "/authors/OL9119101A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}, {"author": {"key": "/authors/OL9119102A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}, {"author": {"key": "/authors/OL7566921A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}, {"author": {"key": "/authors/OL23918A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}, {"author": {"key": "/authors/OL216783A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}, {"author": {"key": "/authors/OL29472A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}, {"author": {"key": "/authors/OL19362A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}, {"author": {"key": "/authors/OL52922A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}, {"author": {"key": "/authors/OL19066A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}, {"author": {"key": "/authors/OL227535A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}, {"author": {"key": "/authors/OL20965A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}, {"author": {"key": "/authors/OL70928A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}, {"author": {"key": "/authors/OL1424323A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}, {"author": {"key": "/authors/OL9119104A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}, {"author": {"key": "/authors/OL234532A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}, {"author": {"key": "/authors/OL32981A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}, {"author": {"key": "/authors/OL722399A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}, {"author": {"key": "/authors/OL32047A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}, {"author": {"key": "/authors/OL29240A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "subject_places": ["Manhattan", "Gotham Cafe", "New York"], "subject_people": ["Steve Davis", "Diane", "William Humboldt", "Guy"], "series": [{"series": {"key": "/series/OL338656L"}, "position": "9"}], "subtitle": "Ninth Annual Collection", "genres": ["/tags/OL171T", "/tags/OL169T"], "latest_revision": 11, "revision": 11, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2017-06-24T21:36:45.507590"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-09-08T03:25:11.922665"}}