Freak / Charles de Lint -- Sugar and spice and everything nice / Tanya Huff -- Great deep / Sophie Masson -- Paint box / Lisanne Norman -- Killing of Bad Bull / Alan Dean Foster -- In the dark valley / Brandan DuBois -- Behind his gates of gold / Karen Huber -- Interview with a mutant / Janet Berliner -- Lucky guesses / Marc Bilgrey -- Mutant mother from hell : a "Fizz Smith" story / David Bischoff -- Family / Fiona Patton -- Rite of passage / Jody Lynn Nye -- Sensitives / Nina Kiriki Hoffman -- Fire and rain / Janet Pack -- Trust / Kristine Kathryn Rusch -- Truth / Michelle West.