Toasted Cake 128: Turning Back the Clock by David Steffen
2 Nov 2014
Toasted Cake 128! In which we navigate the time zones.
The boundary to the Central Time Zone was fifty miles to the west, across the border into Alabama.
First appeared in Bull Spec.
The artwork today is by Joey Jordan, and first appeared alongside David's story in Bull Spec.
David is a software engineer and writer who tends to take on more hobbies than he has time for. He's the founder and editor of Diabolical Plots and the co-founder and administrator of the Submissions Grinder. His latest extraneous hobby is writing interactive fiction, a text adventure along the lines of Zork and the other games made popular by Infocom of yore. His fiction has been published in Escape Pod, Daily Science Fiction, and others, including previous appearances right here on Toasted Cake. NEW! Diabolical Plots will be publishing fiction at pro rates; open the month of December for submissions.
Joey "like a baby kangaroo" Jordan is an international award winning artist whose works have been published in BullSpec magazine, LRH's Writers of the Future vol 27, Baen's Online Universe, and Renard's Menagerie along with various other publications. Originally from WA state, she now works out of her studio in Windsor Colorado where she can live her dream through the creation of otherwise unseen worlds! Find her at joeysart.wix.com/joeyjordan.
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No Power for the Toaster
27 Oct 2014
Power was out Saturday afternoon through Monday morning! Whee! Sorry, guys, no electricity means no toasting of the cake. We cooked food on the outdoor grill, but the metaphor only extends so far. Can' t grill the podcast.
Catch you next week (knock on wood!)
Posted by x on Monday, October 27, 2014 at 12:13 PM | 0 TrackBacks
Toasted Cake 127: Giant by Rose Lemberg
19 Oct 2014
Toasted Cake 127! In which we stand by the rock-whale.
You made a necklace strung with silver wire and beads like tender vials filled with blooming light.
First appeared in Not One of Us.
Rose Lemberg is an immigrant from three countries. Her prose and poetry have appeared in Strange Horizons, Apex, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and other venues. She edits Stone Telling with Shweta Narayan, and has also edited two anthologies: Here, We Cross, a collection of queer and genderfluid poetry from Stone Telling (Stone Bird Press, 2012) and The Moment of Change, an anthology of feminist speculative poetry (Aqueduct Press (2012). Rose can be found at roselemberg.net, rose_lemberg.livejournal.com, and on twitter as @roselemberg.
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Toasted Cake 126: Delicious by Alisa Alering
12 Oct 2014
Toasted Cake 126! In which we drink the Dixie cups of steaming cider.
The only thing I ever wanted was to ride on the float in the Apple Harvest parade.
First appeared in Every Day Fiction.
Alisa Alering was hatched in a secret hollow in the Appalachian Mountains, where she ran around barefoot and talked to the trees. She now lives, writes, and complains about the cold in Indiana. Her short fiction has appeared in Flash Fiction Online, Clockwork Phoenix IV, and Writers of the Future Vol. XXIX.
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Toasted Cake 125: Rehydration by Tina Connolly
5 Oct 2014
Toasted Cake 125! In which the popcorn fires.
I am taking Bill's flannels from the line
in silence
when she comes.
First appeared right here in Strange Horizons.
Your humble narrator lives with her family in Portland, Oregon. Her first fantasy novel, IRONSKIN, was a Nebula finalist, and the sequels COPPERHEAD and SILVERBLIND are now out from Tor. Her stories have appeared in Lightspeed, Tor.com, Strange Horizons, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. She narrates for Podcastle and Beneath Ceaseless Skies, runs the Parsec-winning flash fiction podcast Toasted Cake (OMG THIS IS SO META), and her website is tinaconnolly.com.
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Toasted Cake 124: Green Future by Deborah Walker, read by Alex C. Renwick
28 Sep 2014
Toasted Cake 124! In which we clean the algae.
Miriam has always been a cleaner.
This story first appeared right here in Nature.
Deborah Walker grew up in the most English town in the country, but she soon high-tailed it down to London, where she now lives with her partner, Chris, and her two young children. Find Deborah in the British Museum trawling the past for future inspiration.
Alex C. Renwick was designed in Canada, built in California, and
grown in Texas. She has written dozens of short stories as Camille
Alexa, including her award-nominated collection Push of the Sky, which received a starred review in Publishers Weekly and was an official reading selection of the Powell's Books SF Book Club. She currently splits her time between Portland, Austin, Vancouver, and Montreal.
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Toasted Cake 123: The Uninvited Spook by C. D. Reimer
21 Sep 2014
Toasted Cake 123! In which we hide in the shadows of an air conditioning unit.
He adjusted the parabolic microphone to aim at the apartment building across the street.
This story first appeared in The Storyteller.
C.D. Reimer writes about the everyday reality that he finds weird, twisted and absurd for which most people accept as being perfectly normal. He lives and works in Silicon Valley, consoling hurt computers and fixing broken users.
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Toasted Cake 122: 213 Myrtle Street by Beth Cato
14 Sep 2014
Toasted Cake 122! In which we clench the door frame.
The house at 213 Myrtle Street wore an enchantment that could obscure it when it so desired.
First appeared right here in Flash Fiction Online.
Beth Cato's debut steampunk novel THE CLOCKWORK DAGGER will be released by HarperCollins Voyager on September 16th, 2014. She's originally from Hanford, California, but now resides in Arizona with her husband and son. Her short fiction, poetry, and tasty cookie recipes can be found at bethcato.com.
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Toasted Cake 121: Faerie Food by Kat Otis
7 Sep 2014
Toasted Cake 121! In which we taste the wine.
Everyone knows that humans shouldn't eat or drink when visiting Faerie, but no one's quite sure why.
First appeared right here in Daily SF.
Kat Otis lives a peripatetic life with a pair of cats who enjoy riding in the car as long as there's no country music involved. Her fiction has appeared in Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, Daily Science Fiction and Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword & Sorceress XXVI. She can be found online at www.katotis.com or on Twitter as @kat_otis.
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Toasted Cake 120: The Truth About Woodpeckers by Folly Blaine
31 Aug 2014
Toasted Cake 120! In which we have glitter guts.
Brian told me the truth about woodpeckers.
This story first appeared in 10 Flash Quarterly.
Folly Blaine lives in the Pacific Northwest. Her fiction has appeared at Every Day Fiction, Mad Scientist Journal, and in the anthologies, Dark Tales of Lost Civilizations, and Fresh Blood, Old Bones. See more at www.follyblaine.com.
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Toasted Cake 119: Other Theories of Relativity by Nicole J. LeBoeuf, and Mon pays c'est l'hiver by Amal El-Mohtar
24 Aug 2014
Toasted Cake 119! In which we leave people and places behind.
Other Theories of Relativity, by Nicole J. LeBoeuf, is original to Toasted Cake.
Catastrophe comes and goes in a scattering of instants.
Mon pays c'est l'hiver, by Amal El-Mohtar, first appeared in Lackington's.
In a land of noon-darkness and damp, of mornings that sway between syrup-bright and pigeon-grey and evenings of thick velvet, a traveller feels a tug at the hook in her heart.
Nicole J. LeBoeuf is a New Orleanian writer living in Boulder, Colorado, where she learned to fly single-engine propeller aircraft, use a spinning wheel, and skate roller derby. Other stories of hers appear in the anthology Blood and Other Cravings and in NaMeL3ss Magazine. Her website is nicolejleboeuf.com.
Amal El-Mohtar is the Nebula-nominated author of The Honey Month, a collection of poems and very short fiction written to the taste of 28 different kinds of honey. She plays the harp, is a member of the Banjo Apocalypse Crinoline Troubadours, edits an online quarterly of fantastic poetry called Goblin Fruit, and currently lives in Glasgow with two Jellicle cats and their pet Glaswegian.
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Toasted Cake 118: Last Band Standing by Siobhan O'Flynn
18 Aug 2014
Toasted Cake 118! In which we bag on Nickleback, just a little.
So there's this story stuck rumbling round in my head and as it just keeps coming back, I thought I'd write it down.
Siobhan O'Flynn is a zombie watcher, horror movie aficionado, end of the world worrier, once DJ, now academic, culture watcher, fiction enthusiast. Find her at siobhanoflynn.com
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Toasted Cake 117: Blood Willows by Caroline M. Yoachim
10 Aug 2014
Toasted Cake 117! In which we climb.
Stephen cradled Mara in his arms. She was light, but awkward to carry because of her trees.
This story first appeared in Flash Fiction Online.
Caroline M. Yoachim lives in Seattle and loves cold cloudy weather. She is the author of over two dozen short stories, appearing in Lightspeed, Asimov's, and Clarkesworld, among other places. For more about Caroline, check out her website at carolineyoachim.com.
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