Nebula Award-winning author Pamela Sargent has won much acclaim for the range and quality of her writing. Her novels and stories have been praised as alive with humanity, moving, and memorable by Locus, while Publishers Weekly calls her a sensitive writer of characterization and the Washington Post Book World describes her as a consummate professional [who] exhibits an unswerving consistency of craft. Her many works include enthralling tales of alternative history, science fiction, fantasy, and horror. This collection contains nine fantasy stories set in the past, present, and future, including the stories The Broken Hoop, Outside the Windows, and Eye of Flame.