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.

In the early-twentieth-century South, a black teenager discovers she has a magical power. But when race and gender-related violence violate her existence, she must decide whether to use her power to protect the people she loves or to harm the people who hate.

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.

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.

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 magician obsessed with fighting calls on a deity to help her when her gender bars her from doing so, embroiling her in a plot to defeat an evil king with the help of fellow fighters.

A young boy uses his mystical but threatening power for good when the girl next door needs his help.

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

A young woman has been mocked and shunned by her family for her entire life, never taken seriously as a contender for inheriting her grandmother's magical powers — so, as her grandmother's death approaches, the young woman decides to prove to herself once and for all just how much her family has underestimated her.

An aspiring magician takes on a nearly impossible feat to impress a club of older magicians.