The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 1054
| Novels |
Lemm’s friendly AI, Nickel, discovers where exculpatory legal evidence can be found. Meanwhile, Lemm receives two crucial communications, including a posthumous message from Tinnoli.
Alcuin Fromm, Unseen Friends, Unseen Foes, part 5 Max Niemand plans to expand his office by hiring a secretary. Meanwhile, he goes to Otto’s Tavern at New Year’s and meets with Otto and a police officer, Jimmy Dolan. They give Max a clue to what may be a new case. Gary Inbinder, Chicago Max
Chapter 2: A New Case for the New Year, part 1; part 2
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| Short Stories |
A retired probation officer is visited by an intruder who sits at the kitchen table. The stranger is harmless and says not a word. Since he will accompany his host but won’t leave, what can the officer do but devise increasingly ingenious plans to ditch him?
James Hanna, The Silent Stalker, part 1;
conclusion New contributor T. G. Roettiger describes how an ordinary citizen might commit a compulsive crime in public and with impunity. Kitty Krunch, part 1; conclusion How can a mother relate to an underachieving child in a society where children’s academic standing strongly affects their families’ social status? Huina Zheng, She Is a Great Mother, part 1; conclusion |
| Flash Fiction |
What might become of a school child who is driven to escape parental abuse? Gil Hoy, Those Winter Mornings |
| Poetry | New contributor Jonathan Chibuike Ukah, The Scherzo |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes T. G. Roettiger and Jonathan Chibuike Ukah. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 1054 says of some music and poetry that it Ain’t No Joke. |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Lost City of Gold Channie Greenberg, Demonstration Ron Sanders, Relic 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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