While several of these are excellent stories they lit up like fireflies in my mind and then disappeared.

K J Parker's story The Return of the Pig is a story of magicians jostling for a top position and competition that turns deadly.
Megan Lindholm's Community Service is a story of doing a favour for a friend and discovering what you can lose. Probably the story I found best.
John Crowley's Flint and mirror was about Ireland and Elizabethan times and disconnecting someone from their past, but it seemed to lack a certain sense of time and place.
Matthew Hughes' The Friends of Masquelayne the Incomparable blended with the Parker story in my brain, it's again a story of magic users jostling for top position but this one has someone who refuses to play the game but is not to be underestimated.
Biography of a bouncing boy terror: Chapter II: Jumping Jack in Love by Ysabeau S Wilce is one of those stories that will probably win awards but that I didn't really enjoy. I'm just not the market for this story.
Song of Fire by Rachel Pollack was quite interesting a man who can solve supernatural mysteries is hired to investigate why Djinn are losing their power.
Loft the Sorcerer by Eleanor Arnason is an interesting tale based on an Icelandic Legend but adjusted a bit. It's interesting and twisty and while I'm not familiar with the legend I found it read like a legendary story.
Tim Power's The Governor is an interesting story of family heritance and consequences of actions. I did like it. The revenge was subtle but well done.

It's not a bad read but there was nothing here that stood out. Diverting without making me want to read more by any of the authors. ( )