Angela Yuriko Smith – författare

When you hear of claw machines, what do you picture?In this anthology, claw machines aren't just beacons for lost dollars and frustration, filled with cheap toys that rarely make it home with us. The claw machine is a game, a curse, a tool, even a drug-induced metaphor. It gives omens of death, portals to other dimensions, plushies that aren't what they seem, eggs filled with things you'd never imagine, and so much more.Claw Machine is a collection of stories, with a special introduction, written by 18 established and emerging authors. Their unique speculative stories and dark fiction will grab and pull you in. Unlike the arcade game, you'll definitely walk away with something after reading these stories. *Stories by Angelique O'Rourke, Angela Yuriko Smith, Beth Cook, Curtis C. Chen, Elle Mitchell, Erik Grove, J.B. Kish, Katherine Quevedo, Laura K. Burge, Marriane Xenos, Mark Teppo, Pia Baur, Sarah Walker, Simone Cooper, Summer Olsson, Valerie Geary, Wes Mitchell / Introduction by Will Errickson / Edited by Elle Mitchell

Story Rich Art is what happens when thirteen writers are asked to translate art into story.Writing and art have collided in an eclectic collection featuring speculative and dark short stories, flash fiction, and poems exploring Steve Graziani's artwork.A tale of a monster hunting summer settles alongside a woman on Death's door. There is fear, romance, longing, loss. Time slips, space is all there is left, and our pasts call for us.By the last page, you'll have visited many worlds, been many people, traveled through time, cried and laughed.Twenty-two stories and twenty-four etchings await you.*Stories by Adam Bolivar, Angela Yuriko Smith, Angelique O'Rourke, David Barker, Elle Mitchell, Gigi Little, G.R. Theron, Jacque Day Pallone, Kiyomi Appleton Gaines, Sarah Walker, Simone Cooper, Steve Graziani, Summer Olsson | Edited by Elle Mitchell & Sarah Walker

Guard your gear. Protect your voice. Create anyway.In a world that constantly demands our attention, Space & Time · Issue 149 arrives as both refuge and resistance with a powerful collection of speculative fiction and poetry that refuses to go silent.Celebrating National Poetry Month and nearly six decades of imaginative storytelling, this issue brings together an extraordinary range of voices exploring the fragile boundaries between human and other, truth and myth, creation and collapse.Inside, you'll encounter:Cold War secrets retold through unlikely narratorsDragons, androids, and inherited destiniesCosmic poetry that drifts between stars and endingsFutures shaped by technology, memory, and choiceStories that challenge what it means to survive and to createFrom haunting, intimate poems to expansive speculative worlds, each piece reflects the enduring power of storytelling in uncertain times. These works do more than imagine the future. They test it, question it, and reshape it.For over 60 years, Space & Time has championed bold, genre-defying voices in science fiction, fantasy, and horror. This issue continues that legacy with a compelling blend of short fiction and poetry that is as thought-provoking as it is immersive.Whether you're drawn to dark fantasy, literary sci-fi, or the strange beauty of speculative poetry, this collection invites you to step beyond the familiar and remember why we create at all.

At The Bitter Suites, death is no longer final.For the right price, clients can check into a luxury hotel room, choose the death of their dreams, and trust the Resuscitators to bring them back with a fresh appreciation for life. Romantic poisonings. Nostalgic suicides. Circus-themed executions. Death has become entertainment, therapy, addiction, and status symbol all at once.But beneath the hotel's polished surface, something is going wrong.A first-time client discovers that dying is messier than advertised. A couple's romantic suicide exposes the rot in their engagement. A grieving woman seeks forgiveness in a cup of poisoned tea. A thrill-seeker becomes addicted to the only thing that makes him feel alive. And as the hotel's founder struggles to keep control, the promise of renewable death begins to unravel into obsession, exploitation, and horror.A Bram Stoker Awards® Finalist for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction, Bitter Suites is a sharp, unsettling, darkly funny descent into a future where mortality has been monetized—and where the true terror is not death, but what people will do once they stop fearing it.Perfect for readers who enjoy speculative horror, psychological dread, body horror, dark satire, and stories that ask how far society will go to sell us salvation.

Since 1966, Space & Time has opened its pages to strange visions, bold voices, and speculative work that asks what waits beneath the surface of ordinary life. In this milestone 150th issue, writers and poets from around the world explore rest, resistance, memory, silence, survival, and the creative force that endures even under pressure.Inside this issue, war machines encounter stillness, gardens defy systems built only for productivity, sleep becomes rebellion, missing shadows return changed, time folds around art that never existed, and the quiet act of waiting becomes its own form of survival.Featuring work by Linda D. Addison, Anatoly Loginov, David Anson Lee, Stephen Jackson, Saroj Kumar Senapati, Deahna Fumarol, Matt Bianca, Tamara-Lee Brereton-Karabetsos, Cayt McNeill, Daniel Roop, Mary Soon Lee, Martin Willis, Gabrielle Munslow, Beauty Amy, Amina Abdulsalam Muhammad, Charlie Sweitzer, Jennifer Weigel, and Angela Yuriko Smith.This issue also includes a note from publisher Angela Yuriko Smith on why preserving speculative magazines matters, recent book launches, contributor bios, and featured partner spotlights.A gateway to speculative fiction since 1966, Space & Time continues to champion new voices, strange ideas, and the stories that help us imagine what comes next.

Space & Time 151: Light the Beacons gathers bold new speculative fiction, poetry, and features around the enduring power of hope in dark times. Inspired by the guiding light of the Tarot Star, this issue explores beacons both literal and symbolic: signals across impossible distances, voices that refuse to be silenced, strange survivals, cosmic mysteries, ecological reckonings, and small acts of defiance that may yet change the future.Featuring work by Linda D. Addison, Gabriele Micozzi, M. Frost, Debra Tillar, Sali Andiamo Siyaya, Chris Nelson, Dean Schreck, J.D. Strunk, Frederick Stansfield, Isha Jain, Kendall Evans, A.J. Parker, Preston Ham, Kelly Murashige, Josh Pearce, Micha Rogers, A J Dalton, and Angela Yuriko Smith, this issue continues Space & Time's long tradition of publishing imaginative voices from around the world.With cover art by Kyra Starr and a theme rooted in renewal, resistance, and creative illumination, Light the Beacons invites readers into a constellation of stories and poems where darkness is real, but so is the signal calling us forward.