Drawing the curtain / by Gregory Maguire --
Baba Iaga and the pelican child / Joy Williams --
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya --
The brother and the bird / Alissa Nutting --
Hansel and Gretel / Francine Prose --
A day in the life / Kevin Brockmeier --
With hair of hand-spun gold / Neil LaBute --
The Swan brothers / Shelley Jackson --
The warm mouth / Joyelle McSweeney --
Snow White, Rose Red / Lydia Millet --
The Erlking / Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum --
Dapplegrim / Brian Evenson --
The wild swans / Michael Cunningham --
Halfway people / Karen Joy Fowler --
The mermaid / Timothy Schaffert --
What the conch shell sings when the body is gone / Katherine Vaz --
The Snow Queen / Karen Brennan --
Eyes of dogs / Lucy Corin --
Little pot / Ilya Kaminsky --
A bucket of warm spit / Michael Martone --
Teague O'Kane and the corpse / Chris Adrian --
Pleasure boating in Lituya Bay / Jim Shepard --
Body-without-soul / Kathryn Davis --
The girl, the wolf, the crone / Kellie Wells --
My brother Gary made a movie and this is what happened / Sabrina Orah Mark --
The color master / Aimee Bender --
The white cat / Marjorie Sandor --
Blue-bearded lover / Joyce Carol Oates --
Bluebeard in Ireland / John Updike --
A kiss to wake the sleeper / Rabih Alameddine --
A case study of emergency room procedure and risk management by hospital staff members in the urban facility / Stacey Richter --
Psyche's dark night / Francesca Lia Block --
The story of the mosquito / Lily Hoang --
First day of snow / Naoko Awa --
I am Anjuhimeko / Hiromi Itō --
Coyote takes us home / Michael Mejia --
Ever after / Kim Addonizio --
Whitework / Kate Bernheimer.