Toasted Cake 1: Pageant Girls by Caroline M. Yoachim

Episode #1!  In which we explore the sordid world of beauty pageants.

Kat holds my hand and pulls me across the street.  Living kids ain't supposed to cross the street by themselves, and I got appearances to keep up.

(Originally published in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine.)

Caroline M. Yoachim is a writer and photographer living in Seattle, Washington. She's a graduate of the Clarion West Writer's Workshop, and her fiction has appeared in Asimov's, Fantasy Magazine, and Daily Science Fiction, among other places.  Her novelette "Stone Wall Truth" was nominated for a nebula award last year and has since been reprinted in Chinese and Czech.


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Having been subjected to just enough of a couple of episodes of the horrific Toddlers and Tiaras show... well, OK there was some horror here too, but the reality of the show gives horror fiction a fun for its money, in its way. This one really was fantastic. Now if you can just sort out the iTunes podcast directory... :)

I think that show would likely make me foam at the mouth and explode. Did you see this bit from it?

http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/09/07/ptc-slams-toddlers-tiaras-for-pretty-woman-costume/

Glad you liked the ep! I'll carve out time to look into the itunes thing this weekend... ;)

Don't think I happened upon that one. And yes, there can be foam. I think some of the attraction of the show is, "at least I'm not as bad of a parent as *these* people."

Toasted Cake is a 2012 idiosyncratic podcasting venture from Tina Connolly. Subscribe to rss or iTunes at Feedburner. Read more about the podcast, or learn how to submit!

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