Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes...

Miriam Trujillo

Miriam lives in “a cottage by the sea” in Nome, Alaska, where the “the Arctic’s many moods and ghosts provide constant inspiration.”

“A Dinner of the Hours” depicts a Last Judgment presided over not by a deity but by a man soon to be deceased. At the end of a long life, “old man Simons” is invited to a banquet by replicas of himself at different ages, where they show him how awful he’s been. Better late than never. And, when his body is found, the townspeople figure good riddance.

The story does overstep Bewildering Stories’ “Dead Narrators” guideline. The “bang, I was dead” rule could be sidestepped by shifting to a third-person, fully omniscient point of view. However, the first person point of view is more likely to avoid prompting the readers to wonder whether a real person is part of the real setting.

Miriam Trujillo’s bio sketch can be found here.

Welcome to Bewildering Stories, Miriam. We’re glad to have you with us!