Water patterns / Jo Clayton -- Water everywhere / Nina Kiriki Hoffman -- La curandera / Margaret Ball -- The bloodstone / Lawrence Watt-Evans -- Riddle in nine syllables / Karawynn Long -- Wicked cool / Connie Hirsch -- The sorcerer's apprentice / Dennis L. McKiernan -- The string game / Barbara A. Denz -- The kin of rig / Diana L. Paxson -- Family ties / Lawrence Schimel -- The voice of God / Kate Daniel -- The drowning cell / Gregory Feeley -- A time for heroes / Richard Parks -- Dance of the python / Janet Berliner -- Mrs. Langdon's diary / Constance Ash -- One late night, with jackal / Josepha Sherman -- Dead and gone / Kevin Andrew Murphy -- The hanged man / Lisa Mason -- The silicon sword / Katherine Lawrence -- Tea / Esther M. Friesner -- Wall Street wizards / Laura Resnick -- Swallow / Simon Ings -- The most beautiful girl alive / Mike Resnick and Nicholas A. DiChario -- Birds / Charles de Lint -- Dust and Sand / Dave Smeds -- Looking into the heart of light, the silence / Mark Kreighbaum -- A simple act of kindness / Kate Elliott -- The peachwood flute / Brook and Julia West -- The tenth painting / Thomas S. Roche -- A wreath of pale flowers for Vitri / Teresa Edgerton -- Hunters / Susan Shwartz -- Seven guesses of the heart / M. John Harrison