Publications – Caroline M. Yoachim

New fiction: “Shadow Prisons”

I haven’t been very good about updating this blog, but I had some new fiction out June 30th!! “Shadow Prisons” is a novelette in three parts, appearing in The Dystopia Triptych (eds. John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey, and Christie Yant):

Shadow Prisons: Part 1, “The Shadow Prison Experiment” is in Ignorance is Strength (The Dystopia Triptych Book 1)
Shadow Prisons: Part 2, “Shadow Prisons of the Mind” is in Burn the Ashes (The Dystopia Triptych Book 2)
Shadow Prisons: Part 3, “The Shadow Prisoner’s Dilemma” is in Or Else the Light (The Dystopia Triptych Book 3)

“The Little Mermaid of Innsmouth” at Drabblecast

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 …

My story is on io9!

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 :)

“Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World” at Lightspeed

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. It …

“Seasons Set in Skin” at BCS

My story “Seasons Set in Skin” is in issue #177 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies.

“Four Seasons in the Forest of Your Mind” at F&SF

I have a story out in the May/June issue of F&SF!

A lot of writers have a market that they submitted to from the beginning and have always wanted to crack. This one is mine. My very first rejection came from F&SF, printed on a half sheet of paper and signed by JJA. The rejection arrived in February of 2006.

I wrote “Four Seasons in the Forest of Your Mind” back when CC Finlay was guest editing at F&SF, with limited windows for submissions. I got the idea for the …

A Tasting Menu of Flash

I wrote a series of 5 food-related flash stories for Daily Science Fiction, and they are now all available to read here: http://dailysciencefiction.com/hither-and-yon/tasting-menu

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