Toasted Cake Podcast

Toasted Cake 62! In which our shells grow thick. The shining ones came and took us from the boiling acid pools. (First appeared in Redstone SF.)Steve grew up listening to his dad's ghost stories and never recovered. He attended Orson Scott Card's...

Toasted Cake 61! In which we try to placate the Troll Council. The plumber's deep voice resounded from beneath the maintenance hatch by the main pool at Cascade Reef waterpark. "You've only got one troll left." (First appeared right here in Daily...

Toasted Cake 60! In which we drop nails. The nahual smiles, showing off its yellowed teeth, as it stands under the streetlamp. First appeared in Bull Spec. (In the current issue!) Mexican by birth, Canadian by inclination, Silvia Moreno-Garcia's work appears in Imaginarium...

Toasted Cake 59! In which we skitter from singularity to singularity. The time of Kali has passed.  (First appeared in Poe Little Thing's 'In Space No One Can Hear You Scream' anthology, and can be read online at After Ever After.) Deborah...

Toasted Cake 58! In which we wind up a bird with hammered-copper wings. When Rivka was eight years old, she built her first automaton.(First appeared in Steam-Powered: Steampunk Lesbian Stories, ed. JoSelle Vanderhooft) Shira Lipkin has managed to convince Apex Magazine, Stone...

Toasted Cake 57! In which we imbibe. Susan's hair had always smelled of coconut and jasmine. He still had a half-full bottle of her shampoo in the shower, waiting. (First appeared right here on Daily SF.)D. Thomas Minton's fiction has appeared in...

Toasted Cake 56! In which we are as brilliant as a biolume tattoo. You can hold the city in your mind for a month if you are lucky, and skilled. (First appeared in Bull Spec.) Erin Hoffman is the author of the Chaos...

Toasted Cake 55! In which we are all too human. "It's so very green," said Iolanthe. "Why can't we have colors like this on the ship?"  (First appeared in Stupefying Stories.) Alex Shvartsman is a writer and game designer whose short stories...

Toasted Cake 54! In which the Moon loves the Earth too much. (AND! In which we kick off the 2013 year of Toasted Cake!) "When I was little," Dad says, softly chuckling, "the Moon was so small I thought I could...

[ETA: The correct title of this is "Mother Ship"]Toasted Cake 53! In which we live in the traveling. My mother was a colony ship.(First appeared right here in Lightspeed.) Caroline M. Yoachim is a writer and photographer living in Seattle, Washington. She...

Toasted Cake 52! In which we try to be a good elf. They tried to give me other jobs more suitable to my gifts, like reindeer euthanasia technician and pest exterminator.  (First appeared right here in Thaumatrope)Samuel Montgomery-Blinn is the...

Toasted Cake 51! In which we drop the ice cream. Approximately 21,973,000 people will die this year.  (First appeared in Abyss & Apex) Caren Gussoff is a SF writer living in Seattle, WA. The author of Homecoming, a novel (2000), and...

Toasted Cake 50! In which we gamble. I won my almost-husband in a game of poker.  (First appeared in Every Day Fiction.) L. Lambert Lawson's work has appeared in Every Day Fiction, Cast of Wonders, Liquid Imagination Online, Travelers' Tales, Perigee-Art,...

Toasted Cake 49! In which we play with our cars.It was summer, a hot humid North Carolina summer, and there was nothing else to do.(First appeared in Marti and Bridget McKenna's magazine "Aeon Speculative Fiction.") David D. Levine is a lifelong...

Toasted Cake 48! In which we sample the gruyere. It was three o'clock in the morning and Steve stood in an alley, awaiting the underground cheese tasting.Eric Stoveken is a writer based in Allentown, PA. He is the author of...