The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 1002
| Novels |
When a genie grants three wishes, how does one choose which wishes are the most important? Joe Avery has an unconventional answer. Charles C. Cole, Joe Avery
Chapter 17: The Final Return of the First Client
Hugo Van Dorn experiences a kind of revelation concerning Eugenia. Later, Max Niemand finds that it is a good time to reveal his true identity to Hugo. Gary Inbinder, Phantom Point
Chapter 24: Hugo and Eugenia
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| Novella |
Adrian Marlow writes to Elinor Jana, the Xanthe president, describing his confrontation with Absalom Pound and disclosing the reason or Pound’s treachery. Brian Yapko, San Damien and the Red Daggers
Chapter 8: The Monster, part 1;
part 2
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| Short Stories |
New contributor Bryn Chamberlain traces the influence of a pet dog and a lawnmower in his youthful successes: Old Blue. New contributor Scott Craven depicts the rules that might be imposed by artificial intelligence when an office is Under New Management. In the far and desolate reaches of Siberia, a lonely rairoad switching station operator is not out of touch with the turmoil of Moscow in 1905, and he is visited by a dreaded apparition: Keith Davies, Voitch, part 1; conclusion. |
| Flash Fiction |
“Monday’s child is fair of face...” so the poem goes. But at an advanced age, Thursday’s child may face a task that is both literal and figurative: Kenneth A. Hill, Thursday’s Child Has Far to Go. |
| Poetry | B. K. Mox, A Trail of Grief |
Memoir |
New contributor Victor Pogostin sees Moscow from both an old and new perspective when An Expat Goes Home. |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes Scott Craven and Victor Pogostin. |
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| The Reading Room |
Ron Sanders, Storyteller excerpt |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Burning Castle A randomly rotating selection of Bewildering Stories’ art NASA: Picture of the Day Sky and Telescope, This Week’s Sky at a Glance |
Randomly selected Bewildering motto:
Randomly selected classic rejection notice:
Bewildering Stories’ official mottoes:
“Poems are not made with ideas; they are made with words.” — Stéphane Mallarmé
Ars longa, vita brevis. Rough translation: “Proofreading never ends.”
To Bewildering Stories’ schedule: In Times to Come
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