The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 1049
| News | This is the last regular issue of the second quarter, northern Spring or southern Autumn, according to your hemisphere. Next week, the Second Quarterly Review will bring you the Editors’ Choices from issues 1038-1049. We plan to resume regular publication and begin our 23rd year on July 1st. |
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| Short Stories |
Butler Wren, an honest and modest lawyer, must sometimes deal with plaintiffs who are willing to do very odd things for money. Anthony Lukas,
Butler Wren and the Wandering Finger, part 1;
part 2;
conclusion
New contributor Gabriel White points out that even if “They” make an obvious show of it, one might be very cautious when They’re Listening, part 1; conclusion. Two elderly, historically-minded sisters brave a Georgia summer sun in a large cemetery, thereby fulfilling a promise to a friend to locate and honor a grave. Douglas Young, Looking for the Grave of Luther Laughton, part 1; conclusion |
| Flash Fiction |
Is it doom for writing, now that a handy, functional unit of orthography is off on a long vacation? Hardly, says Charles C. Cole, who can, in his own name, marshal A Missing Thing or two. |
| Poetry | Robin Helweg-Larsen, The Uncertainty of Light |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes Gabriel White. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 1049 asks, “Hey, can you shine some Light Over Here?” |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Precious Amber Channie Greenberg, The Sanctity of Lists Ron Sanders, Epsilon 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
Readers’ reactions are always welcome.
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