The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 1059
| Novel |
Max Niemand recalls Miss Virginia Wells, who gave him much-needed assistance in his youth. Now that he needs an assistant and potential operative in his office, he approaches Miss Olga Boyer, a lady who, he thinks, seems to resemble Miss Wells.
Gary Inbinder, Chicago Max
Chapter 7: Olga
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| Short Stories |
Between gunslingers in the rough borderlands of the Old West, the faster draw doesn’t always win the shoot-out.
Gary Clifton, The High Sheriff of Dog Knot, part 1; conclusion New contributor Jill Jepson introduces Cass, a mother who mourns her deceased child. She discovers where love began and did not end: After Ian, part 1; conclusion. Two university students, Huxley and Juniper, strike up an easy friendship and, soon, a romantic affection. Almost two centuries too late, their comfortingly pleasant story is one that Festus would acknowledge he would have preferred to his own. Douglas Young, From Festus, With Love, part 1; part 2; conclusion |
| Flash Fiction |
Robots can build more robots to populate the world. But is that all they can do? For heaven’s sake, isn’t there more on earth than sheer numbers? Charles C. Cole, The Factory of Tomorrow |
| Poetry | Blair Boleyn, Till Death Do Us Part |
| Short Poetry |
Brenda Mox, Blames Lay Forever |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes Jill Jepson. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 1059 knows the past and the future depend on the present: Then and Now. |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Supernova Channie Greenberg, Strangely Spiky Ron Sanders, The Gift 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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