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Caroline M. Yoachim

@carolinemyoachim.bsky.social

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SFF writer. Hugo, Locus, Ignyte, World Fantasy, Eugie, Sturgeon & Nebula finalist. Stories in BCS, Lightspeed, Clarkesworld & F&SF. Interviewer at Uncanny Magazine. Biracial. She/her.

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Caroline M. Yoachim @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social · May 6

New story day!!! "Unfinished Architectures of the Human-Fae War" is in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social, now available online, and I'm so excited to share it with you!

www.uncannymagazine.com/article/unfi...

Unfinished Architectures of the Human-Fae War - Uncanny Magazine

Kestrel House There have been portals to the Fae realm for at least as long as humans have had fairy tales, but the first one deliberately engineered by humans was opened in an abandoned amusement pa...

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Caroline M. Yoachim @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social · 41m

Leftover brownies are good with this morning's coffee, but are still decidedly not ginger molasses cookies.

Clearly additional research is required on this topic.

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Caroline M. Yoachim @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social · 42m

In the pursuit of research for the #WIP, an attempt at ginger molasses cookies! #writing

This attempt is a dark chocolate brownie with vanilla ice cream, illustrating either a profound lack of understanding of baked goods and/or being outvoted by my children on choice of desserts last night.

Slice of chocolate brownie on a plate, topped with vanilla ice cream. Photo taken from a low angle to show a cross section with the edge of the brownie.

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Caroline M. Yoachim @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social · 1d

Guessing from this post that you don't have a cat...

a black and white cat is sitting on a kitchen counter next to a bottle of salt and pepper .

Alt: a black and white cat is sitting on a kitchen counter next to a shaker of salt and pepper, then it pushes the shaker off the counter with one paw.

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Caroline M. Yoachim @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social · 1d

Some early autumn color for your feed.

A branch with golden-yellow and rust-orange leaves glowing in the sunlight. In the background, a blur of additional autumn branches and pale blue sky.

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Caroline M. Yoachim @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social · 1d

In the current @uncannymagazine.bsky.social I interview @sansromeo.bsky.social about "Seven Minutes in Heaven with the Electric Seraphim," a dark and provocative story of life, consciousness, and the mind-body problem.

Read the story: tinyurl.com/hu4872mv

And the interview: tinyurl.com/3capy2cu

Interview: Juliet Kahn - Uncanny Magazine

Juliet Kahn is an Eisner Award-winning writer and editor living in Boston, Massachusetts. Her short stories, poetry, and criticism have been published in Black Warrior Review, The Comics Journal, and ...

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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 1d

Uncanny Magazine Issue 66 Part 2 features a new novelette by Alaya Dawn Johnson and new short stories by Juliet Kahn and Tim Pratt! buff.ly/Lm6JQFJ

Cover: Listen To Me and I’ll Tell You A Story by Ejiwa “Edge” Ebenebe. In an underwater scene tinted in sea green, a child-like being with flowing ochre-colored hair and dark sea green skin sits on a mass of orange-ochre and green tentacles talking to a school of salmon-color fish. In the foreground, another school of brown fish swimming away from the scene. The text "Uncanny," "September/October 2025," "Issue Sixty-Six," and the credits are in white.

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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 1d

Join the Space Unicorn Ranger Corps! There are many ways to SUPPORT UNCANNY MAGAZINE! Patreon! Subscriptions from Weightless Books! Late Kickstarter Pledges! Or just spreading the word! buff.ly/OCDkfOv

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Caroline M. Yoachim @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social · 1d

a coffee pot is pouring coffee into a yellow coffee mug

Alt: a coffee pot is pouring coffee into a yellow coffee mug, then an orange one, alternating endlessly as a line of mugs go down a conveyor belt to be filled. Text: "Coffee for everyone"

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Caroline M. Yoachim @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social · 1d

Insomnia night, so today I will be replacing sleep with coffee. ☕️☕️☕️

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Caroline M. Yoachim @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social · 1d

A burst of color for your Monday: dahlia #bloomscrolling

Closeup of the back of a dahlia, with petals brightly illuminated in the sun to contrast with a dark stem and near-black background. The petals are bright red at the tips and glow orange and yellow as they approach the center of the flower.

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Ken Liu @kyliu99.bsky.social · 1d

Honored and pleased to be on @newscientist.com's list of the best new science fiction books for October! Check out all the books on the list here: www.newscientist.com/article/2497...

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 2d

Tour dates and stops:

Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 3d

Book tour for Queen Demon (the sequel to Witch King, next book in the Rising World series) starts tomorrow! 1/11

artsatthearmory.org/events/bill-...

Bill Blumenreich Presents Martha Wells - The Center for the Arts at the Armory

Martha Wells in conversation with Holly Black for the new book, Queen Demon

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Caroline M. Yoachim @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social · 1d

Update2: Both ginger molasses cookies AND spiked apple cider are now in the #WIP

#writing

Caroline M. Yoachim @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social · 1d

We should structure our next collaboration around foods we want to research 🤣

Caroline M. Yoachim @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social · 1d

Update: If I put ginger molasses cookies into the story I could bake cookies AS RESEARCH.

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Caroline M. Yoachim @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social · 2d

300 words on the #WIP so far this morning. Slow going, like pulling the words from a vat of molasses. And now I want ginger molasses cookies, so clearly my brain is doing a great job of staying focused on #writing...

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Caroline M. Yoachim @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you!

Caroline M. Yoachim @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social · 2d

Took my resident Swiftie to the theater to see The Official Release Party of a Showgirl. (She loved it.)

Caroline M. Yoachim @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you!

Caroline M. Yoachim @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social · 3d

d) Abandoned offspring of an underwater demigod.

a crab is surrounded by sparkles and the word shiny is on the bottom

ALT: a crab is surrounded by sparkles and the word shiny is on the bottom

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Caroline M. Yoachim @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social · 3d

Sandpiper, out for a walk. Good thinking, bird friend. I am hoping to get out for one myself later today.

#photography #BirdSky #BirdOfTheDay #Walks #nature #wildlife #birds

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Caroline M. Yoachim @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social · 3d

Photography is my coping mechanism for *gestures vaguely at everything* so if it seems like I am posting a lot of flowers and birds lately, that's why.

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Caroline M. Yoachim @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social · 3d

Duck bills look like tiny dog faces, which is particularly amusing to me when they are preening :)

#photography #BirdSky #BirdOfTheDay #ducks #duck #birds

A male mallard duck in shallow water, with head twisted around to preen the feathers on his wing and tail. The open bill of the duck looks like a cartoon dog, yellow with pointed ears, black nose and eyes. The duck's bill/dog's mouth is open, revealing a bit of pink.

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Caroline M. Yoachim @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social · 3d

Pink cosmos, front and back. #bloomscrolling

At the top of the image, in crisp focus, about three quarters of a flower with a yellow center and broad pink petals, dotted with tiny water droplets. In the background, on the bottom of the image, a second flower, slightly blurry, this time showing the back of the petals and a green stem.

Caroline M. Yoachim @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social · 3d

Morning glory.

A circular purple flower with a single row of broad flat petals, glowing pink in the center. The vine on which the flower grows cuts diagonally across the image. Blurry greenery in the background.

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