Caroline M. Yoachim

My first ever commissioned story is a mash-up of The Little Mermaid and Lovecraft’s Shadow Over Innsmouth, told from the perspective of a Japanese fish-frog girl.  You can listen (or read) “The Little Mermaid of Innsmouth” over at The Drabblecast:

http://www.drabblecast.org/2015/09/13/drabblecast-370-the-little-mermaid-of-innsmouth/

To go with the story, I wrote a Lovecraftian parody of “Part of Your World,” from Disney’s version of The Little Mermaid. There’s a version of it at the end of the Drabblecast episode linked above, but I did a somewhat cleaner recording of me singing the song, which you can …

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Each month io9 selects one story from the current issue of Lightspeed to feature on their site, and for September they’ve chosen my story “Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World“!  I like to read io9, so I’m really excited to have my story featured there :)

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My 50th published story is now out!  It’s at Lightspeed Magazine, and you can read it for free:

http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/seven-wonders-of-a-once-and-future-world/

(You can also hear the story as a podcast, narrated by Karyn O’Bryant, using the “Listen” button at the above link.)

I sometimes write stories using what I call “flashmash” where I write several interrelated flash stories and mash them together into a longer piece.  In “Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World,” the story is divided into seven parts, each one focusing on a different wonder of the world.  …

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