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What’s in Issue 1043

Novel Karyn has followed Scott to Sneferu’s pryamid in Egypt soon after Scott’s disappearance at Palenque. Their timing is a little off but, fortunately, Karyn knows which old pharaohs may be lurking about in 20th-century Egypt.
Humphrey Price, Temple of the Inscriptions
Chapter 6: Reunited
Novella New contributor Tannara Young introduces Lucas, who finds that the secret writing in a message intended for his husband, Adrin, may involve them both in a revolutionary cabal organized against the despotic monarch of their magical kingdom. Beneath the Ink, part 1
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Stories
New contributor Cate Gallivan pens a cautionary tale about strange insect-like creatures that go up and Down the Drain, part 1; conclusion.

Have you ever wondered why people will be so hairy in the future and what they might do about it? Ásgrímur Hartmannsson, Future Hair

At least asteroid Kuiper V has a rabbi. He doesn’t convert anyone, but he does have friends who are glad to volunteer and help him out in forming a minyan in order to say a Kaddish. Rabbi Steven Lebow, The Asteroid That Had No Jews
Flash
Fiction
Two diplomats can halt armed conflict between nations, but first they must settle a childhood quarrel. Charles C. Cole, The Stetson Peace Accords
Poetry B. K. Mox, Eternally Recycling
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Poetry
Michael Murry, Inconspicuous Conclusions

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Welcome Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes Cate Gallivan and Tannara Young.
Challenge Challenge 1043 observes that there’s nothing new in nature, and yet everything is Naturally New.
The Reading
Room
Channie Greenberg, An Orbit of Chairs   excerpt
The Art
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Richard Ong, Solar Eclipse

A randomly rotating selection of Bewildering Stories’ art
NASA: Picture of the Day
Sky and Telescope, This Week’s Sky at a Glance

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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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