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Aug 3, 2026 32 min

Sharpen Your Tools · 153

from Authortunities Hosted by Angela Yuriko Smith

In today’s episode we share the cover art for the the brand new August No. 153 (due out Aug 4 - tomorrow!) and share some of the new features in this issue, including the Speculative Missed Connections. Then we kick off the brand new August issue No. 153, by sharing the opening poems and stories, namely “Paring Down” by Kelly J. Cooper, “The Masterpiece” by Anuksha Dey, “The Vision” by Andrew Brenza, and “Optimization Problem” by Xauri’EL Zwaan. Next week we will be sharing stories and poems from the officially released August issue No. 153, namely “The Ogre” by Kathryn Ptacek, “Pickleblood’s Saga” by Kris Schokrowsky, “Unfiltered” by Brian U. Garrison, and “Enterprise One” by Callum Borthwick. That’s all for Episode 17. We will be back next Monday at 2:30 pm EST. Until then, thank you for Reading Space & Time. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit authortunities.substack.com/subscribe

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