Steady girl / Eric Flint -- Schwarza falls / Douglas W. Jones -- Reycling / Philip Schillawski and John Rigby -- A question of faith / Anette Pederson -- Got my buck / Barry Swift -- Dalai Lama's elctric buddha / Victor Klimov -- Canst thous send lightnings? / Rick Boatright -- Grantville's greatest philosopher? / Terry Howard -- Painter's gambit / Iver P. Cooper -- Minstrel boy / John Zeek -- A taste of home / Chris Racciato -- N.C.I.S.: Young love lost / Jose J. Clavell -- Prepared mind / Kim Mackey -- Capacity for harm / Richard Evans -- Little angel / Kerryn Offord -- None so blind / David Carrico -- On the matter of D'Artagnan / Bradley H. Sinor -- A filthy story / Aamund Breivik -- Treasure hunters / Karen Bergstralh -- Bathing with coal / Russ Rittgers -- Lessons in astronomy / Peter Hobson -- Wish book / Gorg Huff and Paula Goodlett -- O for a muse of fire / Jay Robison -- Pilgrimage of grace / Virginia DeMarce -- Twenty-eight men / Mark Huston -- An afterword on Doctor Johnson / Eric Flint