Trading Hearts at the Half Kaffe Cafe — Charles de Lint

The personals ads are certainly a prime source for people's private fantasies, some of which end in happiness, while others turn into total disasters. But what if there was something "special" about either the placer of the ad or the one who answered it -- or both?

Now twelve of today's top fantasy writers offer their own "personal" take on the personals, from the role of Cupid in the modern-day world, to a dream made into reality, to a blind date who seems determined to prove music is the language of love, to the successful seductions and madcap mismatches of the masters, and mistresses, of the night....