Caroline M. Yoachim's Blog, page 10

Happy 4th of July!

With record heat and very little rain, Peter and I will be celebrating the fourth sans sparklers this year. (This picture is from a few years ago, when we still lived in the pleasantly cool and damp state of Washington.)

Instead, we are gathering with a few friends for traditional independence day foods like pizza and cake (because all traditions should include cake), and will spend the evening comfortably air conditioned and playing cards and board games.

Happy 4th!

Story Online, Website Updates

Issue #20 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies is now online, including my story "The Land of Empty Shells."

Excerpt:

The rest of the birthing was hard work, but painless. Dziko and Terra sprinkled water over the clay to soften it and kneaded the flesh together until there was no way to separate his riverbed brown from her sunset orange. Then they divided the babyflesh into two equal pieces, soon to be their children.

Read the rest here.

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I finally got around to updating my webpage, which had gotten a bit out of date. (The last update before this one was back in March, I think.) One disadvantage of making the website from scratch (instead of using something like wordpress) is that it makes updates more of a hassle, mainly because I chose a design where I generate icons for each of my stories. It may be time to switch to something a little more streamlined.