Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword

W.R. Gingell

Cloudy with a Chance of Dropbears

M.C. Dwyer

Don’t Wake the Dragon

Alena Sullivan

Blanche, Bear-Wife

Charles D. Shell

A Midsummer Night’s Bedtime Story

Amanda Nargi

Love and Room for Monsters

Beth Powers

Inheritance of Nightmares

Rollin Jewett

Angus McCarn and the Tale of Two Tales

Samuel Marzioli

Everything Mimsy

Aimee Ogden

Boirdeleau, WI (Population 3,017)

Francesca Forrest

The Gallows Maiden

Tom Howard

The Boy Who Didn’t Believe in Halloween

Kelly A. Harmon

Siphoning the Flames of Life

Leslie J. Anderson

Winter Horses and Other Unknowables

Chloe Garner

Last Knight and the Burning Sands

Lora Gray

Necessary Threads

C.A. Barrett

Pinecones

Darrell J. Pursiful

The Pooka’s Day

Aaron DaMommio

Road Trip

Troy Tang

The Dove of Assisi

Tom Jolly

The Unanswered Riddle

Terri Bruce

The Lady and the Unicorn

April Steenburgh

Like Sand in Your Teeth

Anthony Eichenlaub

When Gracie’s Father Fought

Afterword