“The Sweetest Skill” is now out at Beneath Ceaseless Skies! It’s the third story to feature the candyman Ao, and the audio version is another awesome telling by John Meagher.
F&SF writer and linguist. Winner, 2015 Aurora Award for Best English Poem/Song.Also 2015 Aurora Awards finalist, Best English Short Fiction; former finalist, 2009 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer; finalist, 2008 Aurora Award, "Best Short-Form Work in English"; Second Place winner of the Writers of the Future Contest (volume XXIII).
Tony Pi, F&SF Writer 
I just heard “The Sweetest Skill” at BCS and I loved it! It’s made me hungry for more, I fear I’ll get a cavity if I give in to these cravings, hahah.