After Hours: Tales from the Ur-Bar

Science fiction and fantasy readers have long shown an affinity for a good "bar story". Now some of today's most inventive scriveners have decided to tell their own tall tales-from an alewife's attempt to transfer the gods' curse to Gilgamesh, to Odin's decision to introduce Vikings to the Ur-Bar, from the Holy Roman Emperor's barroom bargain, to a demon hunter who may just have met his match in the ultimate magic bar, to a bouncer who discovers you should never let anyone in after hours in a world terrorized by zombies. AN ALEWIFE IN KISH - Benjamin Tate WHY THE VIKINGS HAD NO BARS - S. C. Butler THE EMPEROR’S NEW GOD - Jennifer Dunne THE TALE THAT WAGGED THE DOG - Barbara Ashford SAKE AND OTHER SPIRITS - Maria V. Snyder THE FORTUNE-TELLER MAKES HER WILL - Kari Sperring THE TAVERN FIRE - D.B. Jackson LAST CALL - Patricia Bray THE ALCHEMY OF ALCOHOL - Seanan McGuire THE GRAND TOUR - Juliet E. McKenna PARIS 24 - Laura Anne Gilman STEADY HANDS AND A HEART OF OAK - Ian Tregillis FORBIDDEN - Avery Shade WHERE WE ARE IS HELL - Jackie Kessler IZDU-BAR - Anton Strout