SOLVED. SF Digest: Short Story about girl possessed by doll. [s]

[SamSpayedPI]

I read a short story in one of those digest-sized science fiction magazines, probably The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction or Asimov's Science Fiction. It was probably in the mid-to-late 1980, give or take a few years.

The story was told from the POV of a father, whose daughter finds or is given a rag doll, which the father becomes more and more frightened of. The father believes that the doll is possessing the little girl's spirit, although if memory serves it was presented as more of an alien possession than a demonic possession.

The creepiest part was when the father (view spoiler)[finds a little green knitted ball, and figures out that the doll had laid an egg. (hide spoiler)]

You'd think that someone over the years would have developed an index of these old SF digests and the stories they contain, but if someone has, I can't find it.

[SamSpayedPI]

Anyone? Anyone?

Not even a moderator to tell me what I did wrong in the description?

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

You didn't do anything wrong in your description, it's just that no one recognizes your story yet.

Please note that the bump period for this group is 30 days because the group is so large.

[Ayshe]

"Felly" by Juleen Brantingham? It's in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1981: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cg...

There is green knitted egg at the end, but it's mother's POV, I read it here: https://archive.org/stream/Fantasy_Sc...

[SamSpayedPI]

Ayshe wrote: ""Felly" by Juleen Brantingham? It's in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1981: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cg...

There is green knitte..."

That's it! Thanks!

It's funny how I dis-remembered so many of the details.

And I purely love the archive data base; now I've got a few thousand more titles on my TBR list.