Since this is an anthology of short stories from a number of fantasy series writers I'll give a quick run down of my feelings about them individually.

Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Little Sisters of Eluria. I love the Dark Tower series, and I remember searching this anthology out just to read Little Sisters when I was reading The Dark Tower books. It remaninds one of my favorite King short stories, but that may just be because I love Roland so much. :)

Terry Prachett: Discworld: The Sea and Little Fishes. Loved this story of Granny Weatherwax. Like all Prachett's it was a fun easy read. If anything it was just too short.

Terry Goodkind: The Sword of Truth: Debt of Bones,. I think that the real treasure of this anthology is it made me want to read more of the series the stories come from. Debt of Bones was one of those, and I can hardly wait to pick up another Goodkind book to see if he can draw me into a series the way he did w/this story.

Orson Scott Card: Tales of Alvin Maker: Grinning Man. I love all of OSC's alternate histories, and this one was a delight.

Robert Silverburg: Majipoor: The Seventh Shrine . Try as I may, I just couldn't get into this story... I guess that is the flip side of an anthology like this, sometimes you learn writers you should shy away from.

Ursula K. Le Guin: Earthsea: Dragonfly. I enjoy the Earthsea books, and this was no different. If anything Dragonfly left me wanting more.

Tad Williams: Memory, Sorrow and Thorn: The Burning Man. This was one of my favorites in the anthology. A very bitter sweet story, and well told. Just the right amount of fairy tale for me.

George R.R. Martin: A Song of Fire and Ice: The Hedge Knight. This story from page one reminded me so much of the movie *A Knight's Tale* that I had to look up which came first (the story fwiw). The resemblance didn't spoil the story though. I also learned that i t was adapted into a graphic novel and I cannot wait to find them and read more of Dunk and Egg's adventure.

Anne McCaffery: Pern: Runner of Pern. My mom turned me onto the Pern books when I was 13 or so. I enjoyed this story enough to consider rereading, and rejoining, the series.

Raymond E Feist: Riftwar Saga: The Wood Boy This was a sad little story... well written, just sad... about the blinding force of first love.

Robert Jordan: Wheel Of Time: New Spring. I didn't read this one because I have previously read the novel of the same name that is a prequel to the Knife of Dreams , the first book in the Wot series. I figured it was just a novella of the novel, and well, I have invested enough of my reading time into the WoT series to be rereading a story I didn't much care for in the first place. :)