Toasted Cake 253: So You've Decided to Adopt a Zeptonian Baby! by David Steffen

10/19/20 • -1 min

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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Toasted Cake 252: Exchange (A Coral Study) by Katherine Quevedo

Toasted Cake #252! In which we connect.When I got to Mario Reyes's dorm room, I heard him scuffling around, opening and closing drawers as if he had a girl coming over.This story first appeared in Factor Four Magazine.Katherine Quevedo was born and raised just outside of Portland, OR, where she works as an analysis manager and lives with her husband and two sons. Her fiction has appeared in Short Édition's Short Circuit, Harbinger Press Flash Fiction Fridays, Thrilling Words, 87 Bedford, and elsewhere. When she isn't writing, she enjoys watching movies, singing, playing old-school video games, belly dancing, and making spreadsheets. Find her at katherinequevedo.com.
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Toasted Cake 254: Packet C by Christi Nogle

Toasted Cake Podcast #254! In which we hold our breath.When we rounded everybody up for the register, Maude and Julie were sheepish. They only wanted this one thing, this battered white box of . . . craft parts?This story first appeared in Sabr Literary.
Christi Nogle's short stories have been produced on podcasts such as PseudoPod, Escape Pod, The Wicked Library, and Tales to Terrify. Christi teaches college composition and lives in Boise, Idaho with her partner Jim and their dogs and cats. Follow her at christinogle.com or on Twitter @christinogle .
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