Description: New York Fantastic: Fantastic Stories from the City That Never Sleeps Peter S. Beagle: "The Rock in the Park"--Nice Jewish boys meet up with a family of lost centaurs in a Bronx park. Elizabeth Bear: "Cryptic Coloration"--A mage disguised as an English professor defends the city against a monster. "The Horrid Glory of its Wings"--An ugly harpy with bronze wings lives in the dumpster behind Desiree's building... Holly Black: "The Land of Heart's Desire"--A caf where you can meet members of the Sidhe--fairies--in Manhattan. Richard Bowes: "A Huntsman Passing By"--The bouncer at a downtown art event finds himself in the middle of a fairy tale come true. "Blood Yesterday, Blood Tomorrow"--A decades-spanning story about NYC flea markets and the cost of success. "Venues"--Struggling artists and writers in NY will do anything for a little publicity... Karl Bunker: "Caisson"--A young man helping build the Brooklyn Bridge in 1871 copes with a friend who's too interested in the fossils they find on the riverbed. Maria Dahvana Headley: "The Tallest Doll in New York City"-- A love affair between the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building told in Damon Runyonesque style. Kat Howard: "Painted Birds and Shivered Bones"--A reclusive painter seeks the anonymity of NYC, then she spies a man transforming into a bird near Ground Zero... N. K. Jemisin: "The City Born Great"--Like all great metropolises before it, when a city gets big and old enough, it must be born; but there are ancient enemies who cannot tolerate new life.[Alternate: New York will live or die by the efforts of a reluctant midwife... and how well he can learn to sing the city's mighty song.] Caitln R. Kiernan: "La Peau Verte"--An absinthe fantasy of artist trapped between the viewing and the viewed. Seanan McGuire: "Red as Snow"--An "Incryptid" story. A shapeshifter loves her new life in the city, but then her family interferes... George R. R. Martin: "Shell Games"--An intriguing but insular man with telekinetic powers becomes New York City's greatest superhero. Naomi Novik: "Priced to Sell"-- The real estate market in Manhattan is always an adventure, but being a broker for supernaturals is a real challenge. Delia Sherman: "How the Pooka Came to New York City"--A shapechanging Irish immigrant arrives in the new world. "Grand Central Park"--A teenager wins the favor of Central Park's fairy Green Queen. "CATNYP"--With the help of the NY Pblic Library, a changeling tries to prove humans know more of love than fairy folk. John Shirley: "...And the Angel with Television Eyes"--An actor wakes in his midtown Manhattan apartment to find a living, breathing griffin perched on his bed... Peter Straub: "Pork Pie Hat"--A legendary saxophonist--thought long dead--is alive and playing in an East Village club; he has an extraordinary story to tell...

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