Toasted Cake Podcast

Toasted Cake 216! In which we unwrap the Impermex.Kurt Gasman hurried home to his wife, eyes on every moving shadow and flicker of light.This story first appeared in Every Day Fiction.S. Hutson Blount has had the usual odd employment...

Toasted Cake 215! In which we delete.The basket scratches my skin, but I hold onto it, dreaming of the smell of freshly boiled bamboo and my mom's humming as she turns the ladle.This story is original to Toasted Cake.D.A. Xiaolin...

Toasted Cake 214! In which we nope out of the story.It was another damn cottage, another damn grandmother, frail and helpless, waiting for a handout sent via grandchild.Tara Campbell's story Another Damn Cottage first appeared in Spelk.Every mermaid's mother warned...

Toasted Cake 213! In which we totally clear our upliftings for safety and sociability.Dear Dr. Higglebottem, The board has received troubling reports from a group of hyper-dolphins about your recent activities on Tau Ceti f.This story first appeared in Flash...

Toasted Cake 212! In which we split our lifeline in two.Alina's family had a history with witches.This story first appeared in Flash Fiction Online.Lina Rather is a speculative fiction author from Michigan now living in Washington, DC. Her work has...

Toasted Cake 211! In which we try to hide the collection.There's a lot of preparation that goes into death--crafting a will, getting your finances and investments in order, signing up for a life insurance policy, specifying to family if you'd...

Toasted Cake 210! In which we learn how to cast on.None of it would've happened if Jane had known how to pick up a dropped stitch, and that's exactly I told Pastor when he popped in to investigate the peculiar...

Toasted Cake 209! In which we consider tunnel number 5.It's cold and sunless in the tunnels. This story first appeared in Nature.Natalia Theodoridou is a writer of strange stories that have appeared in Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Apex, and elsewhere. Natalia's...

Toasted Cake 208! In which we reeeeeeeallly want the Milanos.Ten hours smiling at potential donors to the Temporal Branching Lab, and two more tour groups to go, but my snack stash held only a box of crumbs, without even a...

Toasted Cake 207! In which we don't forget people.They bonded over zombies, while at a writers' convention.This story first appeared in Daily SF.Suvi Tausend lives in dreams and fantasies. When not working as a professional destroyer/creator of worlds and realities,...

Toasted Cake 206! In which we redecorate.They were all called Barbie, and they all lived in the castle.This story is original to Toasted Cake. Megan Lee Beals lives in Tacoma, Washington with her husband and an ancient one eyed cat....

Toasted Cake 205! In which we have mixed feelings about mistletoe."Are you sure you don't mind having a tree in the house?" Glitter's eyes flick from me to the perfectly-coiffed pine tree I'd just coaxed from our hardwood floors.This story...

Toasted Cake 204! In which we do not expect the cosmonaut.One deca before Aphelion my pro-gens sat me and my sib down and told us that Yuri Gagarin would not be visiting us this rota.This story is original to Toasted...

Toasted Cake 203! In which we chase the sugar.When I was little, I never thought about where the sweets came from.This story first appeared in Daily SF.Eleanor R. Wood's stories have appeared in over a dozen venues, including Pseudopod, Flash...

Toasted Cake 202! In which we pupate.Balanced on his tail end, the prince ripples around his dungeon office. This story originally appeared in the anthology After the Happily Ever After: a collection of fractured fairy tales, from Transmundane Press.KT Wagner writes...