Toasted Cake Podcast

Toasted Cake 246! In which we contemplate the ineffable beauty of impermanent things.If you are consulting this guide, you live alone in the house at the end of the lane, and a sphinx has been haunting your overgrown garden.This story...

Toasted Cake 245! In which we try to fix things.First Human Trial: August 12th, 2023. Well, today's the day. This story first appeared in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine.Edward Ashton lives in Rochester, NY with his wife, a variable number of daughters, and...

Toasted Cake 244! In which the story pours out like honey.For some girls it was lustrous hair, twice as long and twice as thick every time it was cut.This story is original to Toasted Cake.Kristiana Willsey is a writer...

Toasted Cake #243! In which we clean the nunchucks."Saviour Ltd.  How may I help you?"This story is original to Toasted Cake.Annie Percik lives in London with her husband, Dave, where she writes novels and short stories, whilst working as a...

Toasted Cake 242! In which we had to start being all whimsical."Aardvark says moo," says the clown, handing over the balloon animal.This story first appeared on Cat's Patreon.Cat Rambo lives, writes, and teaches somewhere in the Pacific Northwest. Her...

Toasted Cake 241! In which we win the diapers.It's not the usual thing nowadays, but when I was born my fairy godmother gave me a blessing. This story is original to Toasted Cake.Elizabeth Walker lives in sunny Southern California with her...

Toasted Cake 240! In which we toss fistfuls of crumpled paper.What apocalypse am I creating today?This story first appeared right here in Nature.Karlo Yeager Rodríguez's fiction has appeared in Nature, Uncanny, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. He hails from the enchanted...

Toasted Cake 239! In which we knit the booties.Jordan recognised the griffin waiting outside the chicken cage as she stepped out, holding three dead hens by the neck; his chest had that unmistakeable stripe of velvet-black feathers among the russet.This...

Toasted Cake 238! In which we are not in sight.The giant spruce trees behind Grandma's house had the best climbing branches, despite the pine needles.This story is original to Toasted Cake.Lyndsie Manusos's work has appeared or is forthcoming in...

Toasted Cake 236! In which we pick up a chisel.So, on paper the project was called the Supersimulation, but privately, we called it "The Nine Bajillion Names of God". This story first appeared right here in Daily SF.Aimee Ogden is a...

Toasted Cake #237! In which we check out Goblin's stash."That's one more shambling patchwork monstrosity which won't be terrorizing our fair city any longer." This story is original to Toasted Cake.Michael M. Jones lives in southwest Virginia with too many books,...

Toasted Cake 235! In which things get a little messy.The taco beach was a mistake.This story is original to Toasted Cake.Kate Ristau is a folklorist, an author, and the Executive Director of Willamette Writers. You can find her essays in...

Toasted Cake #234! In which we find the daffodils.A witch's garden. Agnes had read about them in fairy stories. This story is original to Toasted Cake.Samuel Poots is a writer from N. Ireland who communicates primarily by means of Pratchett quotes....

Toasted Cake 233! In which we finally come up with the perfect doom, no really this time. The Terrible installed a conveyor belt exclusively for her.This story first appeared right here in Daily SF.John (@wiswell) is a disabled writer who lives...

Toasted Cake #232! In which we aren't sure what kind of a bird we are.Justin is ten feet tall, so I give myself a pair of wings with which to reach him.This story is original to Toasted Cake.Avra Margariti is...