Toasted Cake Podcast

Toasted Cake 260! In which maybe we procrastinate? Just a little?
Jen's final sociology paper was due tomorrow, so she was procrastinating.
This story first appeared in Galaxy's Edge, and a slightly longer version is available to read on Curious Fictions.
Effie Seiberg is a fantasy and science fiction writer. Her stories can be found in the "Women Destroy Science Fiction!" special edition of Lightspeed Magazine (winner of the 2015 British Fantasy Award for Best Anthology), "The Best of Galaxy's Edge 2015-2017", Analog, Fireside Fiction, and PodCastle, amongst others. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she likes to make sculpted cakes and bad puns. You can find more of her work at effieseiberg.com, or follow her on twitter at @effies. Effie would like you to stay the eff at home, and if you can't, to at least wear a mask when you're out.
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Toasted Cake 258! In which we arrange our features in a neutral expression.
"I am experiencing an unpleasant digestive reaction to something I ingested this morning and my primary spousal relationship is suffering a breakdown which is causing me emotional distress."
This story first appeared on Darusha's Patreon.
M. Darusha Wehm is the Nebula Award-nominated and Sir Julius Vogel Award winning author of the interactive fiction game The Martian Job, as well as the science fiction novels Beautiful Red, Children of Arkadia, The Voyage of the White Cloud, and the Andersson Dexter cyberpunk detective series. Their mainstream books include the Devi Jones' Locker YA series and the humorous coming-of-age novel The Home for Wayward Parrots. Darusha's short fiction and poetry have appeared in many venues, including Terraform and Nature. Originally from Canada, Darusha lives in Wellington, New Zealand after spending several years sailing the Pacific. TC258-fear-of-lying.mp3

Toasted Cake #257! In which we attempt the parallel parking maneuver.360-degree camera coverage. Radar, inertial compass, GPS. Independent all-wheel drive, nanoceramic brakes. 5G, sat-phone, and UHF communications. Air bags everywhere. And the worst student driver in the history of the automobile.This story is original to Toasted Cake.Laurence Raphael Brothers is a writer and a technologist. He has published around 30 short stories in magazines such as Nature, PodCastle, the New Haven Review, and Galaxy's Edge. His WWI-era fantasy novel Twilight Patrol and his romantic noir urban fantasy novella The Demons of Wall Street were both just recently published. Follow him on twitter: @lbrothers or visit laurencebrothers.com for more stories that can be read or listened to online.
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Toasted Cake 256! In which we ride.
Araana picked a sticky seedpod off his coat and stepped out of the brambles, onto the surface of the wide and flat road left over by an empire long past.This story first appeared on Bogi's patreon.You can find Bogi at Bogi reads the world, dot com! Bogi is also bogiperson on a variety of social media.
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Toasted Cake Podcast #253! in which we try to raise fully functioning adults.Whether you are adopting by chance because you found the smoking crater on your property or whether you volunteered for the Zeptonian Childcare Service, congratulations and thank you!This story first appeared in Podcastle.David Steffen is a writer, publisher, editor, and software developer. He is the editor of Diabolical Plots and the Long List Anthology series, and he runs The Submission Grinder, a donation-supported website to help writers find publishers for their work. You can find him on twitter @diabolicalplots.
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