The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 1077
| Serial |
Dave Kratzert, a former Homicide detective and now private investigator, is summoned to investigate a kidnapping. The case becomes rapidly more mysterious and, ultimately, complex than he initially expects. Gary Clifton, All the Fine Tombstones, part 1; part 2 |
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| Short Stories |
New contributor Diana L. Gustafson introduces Nadia, who is severely injured by a violent attack. She must eventually wonder what those old folk tales were really talking about; after all, she seems to have lived a version of Today’s Grimm Tale. New contributor Noah Isherwood. brings a new railroad man to the high-gravity planet Baraq to manage lengthy ore-carrying trains. In the process he lives in Tungsten Dreams, part 1; part 2; conclusion |
| Flash Fiction |
Payson is a lonely widower. To lighten a day, he shops in a store advertising antiques on consignment. He buys one. Big mistake.
Charles C. Cole, Payson’s Succubus What’s a fast-food marketer to sell to space aliens passing through in a spaceport when they don’t care for Earthlings’ food? A friend provides the recipe for a salubrious drink. Ronald Larsen, Sellurian Beer |
| Poetry | New contributor Jonathan Chibuike Ukah, The Valley |
| Short Poetry |
Bill Bowler, In the Middle of the Night New contributor Brent Yergensen, Stories Change Paths |
Departments
| Welcome |
Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes... Diana L. Gustafson, Noah Isherwood, Jonathan Chibuike Ukah and Brent Yergensen |
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| Challenge |
Challenge 1076 Response discusses Charles C. Cole’s “Swain and Althea” with Patricia Worth. |
| The Reading Room |
David Rudd,
Blood Will Out & Other Strange Tales — excerpt
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| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Chromatic Opulence Channie Greenberg, Beach Party 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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