Toasted Cake 248: Heart Stitch by José Pablo Iriarte

09/14/20 • -1 min

Toasted Cake 248! In which we mend the tear in the fabric.
You pieced it together decades ago; so far back that you don't remember not knowing.

This story first appeared in Daily SF.
José Pablo Iriarte is a Cuban-American writer, high school math teacher, and parent of two. Jose's fiction has been nominated for the Nebula Award and long-listed for the James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award, and can be found in magazines such as Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, and Fireside Fiction. Learn more at labyrinthrat.com, or look for José on twitter @labyrinthrat.
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Toasted Cake 247: A Wedding Gown of Autumn Leaves by Caroline M. Yoachim

Toasted Cake 247! In which we use the unicorn-mane thread.The day before my wedding, my dress is a pile of birch leaves.

This story first appeared in Daily SF.
Caroline M. Yoachim is a prolific author of short stories, appearing in Asimov's, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Uncanny, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clarkesworld, and Lightspeed, among other places. She has been a finalist for the Hugo, World Fantasy, Locus, and multiple Nebula Awards. Yoachim's debut short story collection, Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World & Other Stories, came out with Fairwood Press in 2016.
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Toasted Cake 249: In Which a Demonic Printer Sparks an Office Romance by Diane Callahan

Toasted Cake 249! In which we feed the printer. Everyone in the office called the supply room printer a "giant plastic sack of crap that deserved to rot in the underworld for all eternity."This story is original to Toasted Cake. Diane Callahan strives to capture her sliver of the universe through writing fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. As a developmental editor and ghostplotter, she spends her days shaping stories. Her YouTube channel, Quotidian Writer, provides practical tips for aspiring authors. You can read her work in Translunar Travelers Lounge, Short Édition, and Riddled with Arrows, among others.
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