Nineteen stories of myth and magic through the centuries Here are nineteen original stories of myth, magic, and the creatures of fantasy, as seen through different historical eras—from the Age of Antiquity to the Age of Sails, the Colonial Age, the Age of Pioneers, the Pre-Modern Age, and the Age to come... 1 • Introduction (Ages of Wonder) • essay by Julie E. Czerneda and Rob St. Martin 5 • The Curse Tablet • short story by Nina Kiriki Hoffman 24 • To Play the Game of Men • short story by Caitlin Sweet 35 • Mist Wraith • short story by Urania Fung 45 • Written in Smoke • short story by Karina Sumner-Smith 65 • Cloud Above Water • short story by Natalie Millman 80 • Crossing the Waters • short story by Ika Vanderkoeck 96 • Here There Be Monsters • short story by Brad Carson 113 • A Swift Changing Course • short story by Jana Paniccia 131 • Blood and Soil • short story by Ceri Young 145 • Fletcher's Ghost • short story by Liz Holliday 168 • Immigrant • short story by Sandra Tayler 185 • A Small Sacrifice • short story by Kristen Bonn 200 • Pony Up • short story by Linda Davis 213 • Gold at the End of the Railroad • short story by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough 227 • The Stone Orrery • short story by Jennifer Crow 243 • Sphinx! • short story by Tony Pi 259 • A Bird in the Hand • short story by Queenie Tyrone 277 • Mars Bound • short story by K. J. Gould 289 • Angels and Moths • short story by Costi Gurgu (trans. of Îngeri și molii? 2010)