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• 11 • Introduction (When the Hero Comes Home) • (2011) • essay by Susan J. Morris
• 15 • A Place to Come Home to • (2011) • short fiction by Jay Lake and Shannon Page
• 25 • The Evil That Remains • (2011) • short fiction by Erik Buchanan
• 37 • Full Circle • (2011) • short fiction by Steve Bornstein
• 47 • Lessons Learned • (2011) • short fiction by Peadar Ò Guilin
• 61 • Brine Magic • (2011) • short fiction by Tony Pi
• 73 • The Legend of Gluck • (2011) • short fiction by Marie Bilodeau
• 83 • One and Twenty Summers • (2011) • short fiction by Brian Cortijo
• 101 • The Blue Corpse Corps • [Jig the Goblin] • (2011) • short story by Jim C. Hines
• 117 • Ashes of the Bonfire Queen • (2011) • short fiction by Rosemary Jones
• 137 • Keeping Time • (2011) • short story by Gabrielle Harbowy
• 151 • Scar Tissue • (2011) • short fiction by Chris A. Jackson
• 163 • Coward • (2011) • short story by Todd McCaffrey
• 173 • Nine Letters Found in a Muddied Case on the Road in Baden, Germany • (2011) • short fiction by Xander Briggs
• 183 • The Once and Now-ish King • (2011) • short fiction by J. M. Frey
• 199 • His Last Monster • (2011) • short fiction by J. P. Moore
• 215 • Dark Helm Returns • (2011) • short fiction by Ed Greenwood
• 225 • Mirror, Mirror • (2011) • short fiction by Phil Rossi
• 245 • Knights and Beans • (2011) • short fiction by Julie Kagawa
• 257 • Oathbreaker: A Tale of the World of Ruin • [The World of Ruin] • (2011) • short fiction by Erik Scott de Bie