by Anne Rice, Byron Preiss, John Gregory Betancourt, John Betancourt, S. P. Somtow, Geoffrey A. Landis, Robert Silverberg, Kevin J. Anderson, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Matthew J. Costello, Alan Rodgers, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Larry Tritten, John Brunner, Harlan Ellison, Don D'Ammassa, A.R. Morlan, Karen Haber, Rick Hautala, Brian Hodge, William, Jr. Relling, Frances A. McMahan, D. F. Lewis, Robert Weinberg, Lionel Fenn, Gene Wolfe, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, D.F. Lewis, William Relling Jr., S.P Somtow
"It's a Cherokee Rose. The story is that when American soldiers were moving Indians off their land on the Trail of Tears, the Cherokee mothers were grieving and crying so much 'cause they were losi…