Introduction / Paula Guran --
The best Christmas ever / James Patrick Kelly --
Go toward the light / Harlan Ellison --
If dragon's mass eve be cold and clear / Ken Scholes --
Pal o' mine / Charles de Lint --
The Nutcracker coup / Janet Kagan --
How the Bishop sailed to Inniskeen / Gene Wolfe --
Dulce domum / Ellen Kushner --
Julian : a Christmas story / Robert Charles Wilson --
Loop / Kristine Kathryn Rusch --
The Christmas witch / M. Rickert --
Wise men / Orson Scott Card --
The night things changed / Dana Cameron --
Home for Chrstmas / Nina Kiriki Hoffman --
A Christmas story / Sarban --
A woman's best friend / Robert Reed --
Christmas at Hostage Canyon / James Stoddard --
The winters solstice / Von Jocks --
Newsletter / Connie Willis.