Datlow, Ellen (ed) - The Doll Collection / Датлоу, Эллен (ред) - Коллекция кукол [2015, epub, ENG]

Skin and Bone short fiction by Tim Lebbon Heroes and Villains short fiction by Stephen Gallagher The Doll-Master short fiction by Joyce Carol Oates Gaze short story by Gemma Files In Case of Zebras short fiction by Pat Cadigan There Is No Place for Sorrow in the Kingdom of the Cold novelette by Seanan McGuire Goodness and Kindness short fiction by Carrie Vaughn Daniel's Theory About Dolls novelette by Stephen Graham Jones After and Back Before short fiction by Miranda Siemienowicz Doctor Faustus short fiction by Mary Robinette Kowal Doll Court short fiction by Richard Bowes Visit Lovely Cornwall on the Western Railway Line short fiction by Genevieve Valentine Ambitious Boys Like You short story by Richard Kadrey Miss Sibyl-Cassandra short fiction by Lucy Sussex The Permanent Collection short fiction by Veronica Schanoes Homemade Monsters / Самодельные монстры short fiction by John Langan Word Doll short story by Jeffrey Ford

After sixty-two days in the cold, the unexplored landscape where words hardened into solid shapes and every breath might have frozen his soul, Kurt’s wedding ring fell off. He only removed his glove for a moment, needing the more dextrous use of his bare fingers to unhook frozen gear from the sled. And for a few seconds he didn’t even notice that the ring had slipped away. It was like that sometimes down here, as if the cold could slow brain functions in the same way that it thickened oil and paraffin, made every movement three times harder than it was the day before. He saw it drop from his finger and sink into the snow, but it was several heartbeats before he said, “Shit.” He’d thought that metal contracted in the cold. Enough, at least, to keep it on his finger. But he supposed his loss of weight from starvation and excessive effort had finally superseded the ratio of gold shrinkage. “Shit. Shit!” He had the good sense to put his glove back on before digging into the snow. . . .