Table of Contents

Title Page

Introduction

By Rhonda Parrish

She Alone

Blake Jessop

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Strange Attractor

Kevin Cockle

Magnesium Bright

Lizbeth Ashton

Permanence

Dusty Thorne

Old Flames

V.F. LeSann

The Hatchling

K.T. Ivanrest

The Djinni and the Accountant

Hal J. Friesen

The Second Great Fire

Laura VanArendonk Baugh

Bait

Krista D. Ball

Double or Nothing

Mara Malins

A Girl, Ablaze with Life

Claude Lalumière

Light My Fire

Susan MacGregor

Ring of Fire

JB Riley

Aladdin’s Laugh

Damascus Mincemeyer

Phoenix Rising

Heather M. O’Connor

Cold Comfort

Gabrielle Harbowy

Aitvaras

R.W. Hodgson

Midnight Man versus

Frankie Flame

Chadwick Ginther

Breath of the Caldera

Wendy Nikel

Cilantro

Annie Neugebauer

The Midwife and the Phoenix

J.G. Formato

Biographies