After Hours: Tales from the Ur-Bar(2011)

Benjamin TatePatricia BrayJoshua PalmatierJackie KesslerLacy DanesMegan Hart

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