Title: That Tiny Flutter of the Heart I Used to Call Love

Title: That Tiny Flutter of the Heart I Used to Call Love Title Record # 1729608
Author: Robert Shearman
Date: 2013-10-17
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English

Note: Not necessarily speculative; no explicit speculative content, bodies of presumed dead never actually found, etc.

Synopsis: After her brother is lost in WWI, a girl who had been involved in a ritual with him of sacrificing her beloved dolls to his love becomes involved with a young man, and introduces him to the same ritual.

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Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
Nomination	2014 Shirley Jackson	Best Short Fiction

Publications

Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Psycho-Mania!	2013-10-17	ed. Stephen Jones	Robinson	978-1-78033-026-6	£8.99^?£: UK pound	xvii+ 522	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	Les Edwards
Psychomania: Killer Stories	2014-03-04	ed. Stephen Jones	Skyhorse Publishing	978-1-62873-816-2	$14.95^?$: US dollar	xvii+ 522	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	Les Edwards
Best British Horror 2014	2014-04-15	ed. Johnny Mains	Salt Publishing	978-1-907773-64-8	£9.99^?£: UK pound	432	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth
Best British Horror 2014	2014-04-15	ed. Johnny Mains	Salt Publishing	978-1-78463-007-2	$10.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	anth
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Six	2014-05-20	ed. Ellen Datlow	Night Shade Books	978-1-59780-523-0	$10.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	anth	Pierre Droal
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Six	2014-06-03	ed. Ellen Datlow	Night Shade Books	978-1-59780-503-2	$15.99^?$: US dollar	l+ 397	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	Pierre Droal
They Do the Same Things Different There: The Best Weird Fantasy of Robert Shearman	2014-09-16	Robert Shearman	ChiZine Publications	978-1-77148-300-1	$16.99^?$: US dollar	328	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	Erik Mohr
Nightmares: A New Decade of Modern Horror	2016-11-01	ed. Ellen Datlow	Tachyon Publications	978-1-61696-232-6	$16.95^?$: US dollar	427	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	Nihil (artist)
Nightmare Magazine, June 2020	2020-06-00	ed. John Joseph Adams	Nightmare Magazine		$2.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	mag	grandfailure
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Six	date unknown	ed. Ellen Datlow	Night Shade Books	978-1-59780-503-2	$15.99^?$: US dollar	l+ 397	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	Pierre Droal

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