title: Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears
text: # Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears
  
  Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears is the third book in a series of collections of re-told fairy tales edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling.
  
  ## Contents
  
  * Introduction – Terri Windling & Ellen Datlow
  * "Ruby Slippers" – Susan Wade – a re-telling of The Wizard of Oz from the perspective of a middle-aged Dorothy.
  * "The Beast" – Tanith Lee
  * "Masterpiece" – Garry Kilworth
  * "Summer Wind" – Nancy Kress
  * "This Century of Sleep or, Briar Rose Beneath the Sea" – Farida S. T. Shapiro – a re-telling of Sleeping Beauty, focusing on the transformations caused by time and waiting.
  * "The Crossing" – Joyce Carol Oates
  * "Roach in Loafers" – Roberta Lannes
  * "Naked Little Men" – Michael Cadnum
  * "Brother Bear" – Lisa Goldstein
  * "The Emperor Who Had Never Seen a Dragon" – John Brunner
  * "Billy Fearless" – Nancy A. Collins
  * "The Death of Koshchei the Deathless" – Gene Wolfe
  * "The Real Princess" – Susan Palwick
  * "The Huntsman's Story" – Milbre Burch
  * "After Push Comes to Shove" – Milbre Burch
  * "Hansel and Grettel" – Gahan Wilson
  * "Match Girl" – Anne Bishop
  * "Waking the Prince" – Kathe Koja
  * "The Fox Wife" – Ellen Steiber
  * "The White Road" – Neil Gaiman
  * "The Traveler and the Tale" – Jane Yolen
  * "The Printer's Daughter" – Delia Sherman
  