By Carl Slaughter: Tina Connolly and Caroline M. Yoachim, who occasionally collaborate on short fiction, each have a short story collection coming out on August 16. And each has written the introduction to the other’s book.

TINA CONNOLLY

On the Eyeball Floor & Other Stories

 

Table of Contents

Introduction by Caroline M. Yoachim

On the Eyeball Floor: Stories of Climbing, Falling, and Spare Body Parts

• “On the Eyeball Floor”
• “On Glicker Street: A Seasonal Quartet”
• “Selling Home”
• “Left Hand”
• “Rehydration”

Recalculating: Stories of Journeys, Dead-Ends, and the Friends Riding Shotgun

• “Recalculating”
• “The Bitrunners”
• “Standard Comfort Measures in Earthling Pregnancies”
• “Super-Baby-Moms Group Saves the Day!”
• “That Seriously Obnoxious Time I Was Stuck at Witch Rimelda’s One Hundredth Birthday Party”

See Dangerous Earth-Possibles: Stories of Families, Baseball Bats, and Zombie Chipmunks

• “See DANGEROUS EARTH-POSSIBLES!”
• “Turning the Apples”
• “Facts of Bone”
• “Wendy with a Comet in the Tail of the Y”
• “Miss Violet May from the Twelve Thousand Lakes”
• “Old Dead Futures”

A Million Little Paper Airplane Stories: Stories of Myths, Legends, and the Uncatchable

• “A Million Little Paper Airplane Stories”
• “Ten”
• “The God-Death of Halla”
• “One Ear Back”
• “Golden Apples”
• “tiny atrocities”
• “Moon at the Starry Diner”

Hard Choices: Stories of Tough Choices, Tough Love, and Fairy Dust

• “Hard Choices”
• “How Frederika Cassowary-Jones Joined the Ladies’ Society of Benevolent Goings-On”
• “Inflection”
• “Silverfin Harbor”
• “As We Report to Gabriel”

Afterword

Artwork by Kazuhiko Nakamura

Trade Paper, On Sale Date: Aug 16, 2016

Find it at Fairwood Press, Goodreads, Powells, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, or Indiebound.

Kansas City Launch Party at WorldCon, Aug 19, 8pm, 2016

Seattle Launch Party at U Books in Seattle, Aug 25, 7pm, 2016

CAROLINE M. YOACHIM

Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World & Other Stories

Table of Contents

Introduction by Tina Connolly

Part 1: Our World

• Five Stages of Grief After the Alien Invasion
• Betty and the Squelchy Saurus
• Rock, Paper, Scissors, Love,
• Death
• The Philosophy of Ships
• Temporary Friends
• Interlude: Flash Fiction Worlds
• A Million Oysters for Chiyoko
• Carla at the Off-Planet Tax Return Helpline
• Do Not Count the Withered Ones
• Pieces of My Body
• Everyone’s a Clown
• Harmonies of Time

Part 2: Fantasy Worlds

• Stone Wall Truth
• The Little Mermaid of Innsmouth
• On the Pages of a Sketchbook Universe
• Seasons Set In Skin
• The Carnival Was Eaten, All Except the Clown
• Interlude: Flash Fiction Worlds
• Paperclips and Memories and Things That Won’t Be Missed
• Please Approve the Dissertation Research of Angtor
• Grass Girl
• One Last Night at the Carnival, Before the Stars Go Out
• Honeybee
• Elizabeth’s Pirate Army

Part 3: Alien Worlds

• Mother Ship
• Four Seasons in the Forest of Your Mind
• Press Play to Watch It Die
• Ninety-Five Percent Safe
• Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World

Publication date: August 16, 2016

Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World is available for preorder at Fairwood Press – Amazon – Barnes and Noble

There are 27 stories in my collection & 27 days until the release date! So I thought it'd be fun to tweet a first line every day. #1stLines

— Caroline M. Yoachim (@CarolineYoachim) July 20, 2016