A teenage girl is the apprentice to a mysterious magician who fails to reveal the sinister lifeforce behind their magic.

Entranced by the allure of real magic, a market boy is appointed court magician for a cruel regent. Only when he begins to lose the things he loves does he realize he was not ready to pay the cost.

A wizard struggles with the loss of his memory.

When Charlie's mother decides to move to New Mexico, Charlie is left fearful of what will happen without her. Her mother's magic show, 15 years old now, as well as Charlie and her soon-to-be son.

Before she can become a full sorceress, a young and talented female magician must pass her sorceress trials and overcome the dangers of Pride, Stagnation, Pain, and Panic.

An elderly wizard senses an impending earthquake and asks a former student to help him stop the damage. He also calls upon the transformative magic once taught to him by a cherished female mentor in order to stabilize the ground, becoming irreversibly one with the earth in the process.

A two-bit magician seduces a mother who has recently lost her young son in a motorcycle incident. Later, he finds himself back at the gravesite and uses the little magic he actually has inherited from his truly magical father to bring her son back to life.

An unnamed narrator uses their own flesh and blood to cast evil spells and curses onto those who stand in their way. An unnamed narrator recounts the way they are able to cast spells by tearing off and consuming their own flesh and blood, and explains what has happened to those who have crossed them.

A hair stylist mage travels north to support a huntress in a melee battle and gain sponsors for her college tuition, witnessing a world full of violence and the misappropriation of magic.

A traumatized veteran with destructive magical powers struggles to escape the weight of her past crimes—but finds herself pulled in once more.