Stable of dragons / Peter S. Beagle -- The rule of names / Ursula K. Le Guin -- The ice dragon / George R. R. Martin -- Sobek / Holly Black -- King Dragon / Michael Swanwick -- The laily worm / Nina Kiriki Hoffman -- The harrowing of the dragon of Hoarsbreath / Patricia A. McKillip -- The bully and the beast / Orson Scott Card -- Concerto Accademico / Barry N. Malzberg -- The dragon's boy / Jane Yolen -- The miracle Aquilina / Margo Lanagan -- Orm the beautiful / Elizabeth Bear -- Weyr search / Anne McCaffrey -- Paper dragons / James P. Blaylock -- Dragon's gate / Pat Murphy -- In autumn, a white dragon looks over the wide river / Naomi Novik -- St. Dragon and the George / Gordon R. Dickson -- The silver dragon / Elizabeth A. Lynn -- The dragons of Summer Gulch / Robert Reed -- Berlin / Charles de Lint -- Draco, draco / Tanith Lee -- The dragon on the bookshelf / Harlan Ellison and Robert Silverberg -- Gwydion and the dragon / C. J. Cherryh -- The George business / Roger Zelazny -- Dragon's fin soup / S. P. Somtow -- The man who painted the dragon Griaule / Lucius Shepard.