A Wedding Gown of Autumn Leaves

Toasted Cake 247: A Wedding Gown of Autumn Leaves by Caroline M. Yoachim

Episode #247! In which we use the unicorn-mane thread.

The day before my wedding, my dress is a pile of birch leaves.

This story first appeared in Daily SF.

Caroline M. Yoachim is a prolific author of short stories, appearing in Asimov's, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Uncanny, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clarkesworld, and Lightspeed, among other places. She has been a finalist for the Hugo, World Fantasy, Locus, and multiple Nebula Awards. Yoachim's debut short story collection, Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World & Other Stories, came out with Fairwood Press in 2016.

Original airdate: August 23, 2020