The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 1079
| News | Bewildering Stories has no themed issues, strictly speaking, but certain kinds of stories and poems do tend to gravitate toward issues at the end of the year, at the end of October and in the middle of February. Happy Valentine’s week! |
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| Short Stories |
Captains Henry and George Walker, twins, must combat the Jirt over a planet of Fomalhaut. But the Jirt are non-human. What does winning a battle with them really consist of?
David Barber, Greatness, and How I Achieved It Janessa and Victoria show how friends may have a kindness and affinity for one another despite their different status in society. Shauna Checkley, Finding a Home Mason Trout is so irked by scathing reviews of his novels that he’s determined to show the reviewers what a bad novel really looks like. Little does he suspect the depth of reality that his supposedly ironic project will reveal. James Hanna, The Land Fish, part 1; conclusion New contributor Peter Mangiaracina introduces Calathea Pomona to Bert Tumnus, alias Vince Sylvan. What shall Calathea make of him... or them? The Alchemy of Attraction, part 1; conclusion |
| Flash Fiction |
We know that Swain and Althea are a likely couple, but an elderly friend of Swain’s, Doc Buckle, brings some surprising news on his own part, and he needs advice. Charles C. Cole, Swain Clatchee Pumps Gas A hiker comes upon a mesquite tree that incites the memory of a love that may be lost, or perhaps not. Gil Hoy, Hiking in Saguaro National Park |
| Short Poetry |
Oonah V. Joslin, Money Can’t Buy Me Brenda Mox, Thorny as a Briar Rose |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes Peter Mangiaracina. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 1079 expects that in many stories readers will seek a Confirmation of their beliefs. |
| The Reading Room |
Gary Beck, Molecular Distortion excerpt |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Harnessing a Pulsar Channie Greenberg, Glass 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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