The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 1080
| Short Stories |
In a far future, people have evolved to thrive in a semi-aquatic form, but they still inhabit a land they call Caldera. Vapours bring word to Leanna from Duncan, a spirit, that seismic shifts will make Caldera uninhabitable, but the Calderans can still reach the ocean. David Brookes, The Vapours of Caldera. part 1; part 2; conclusion A grifting mope shortchanges a church on a paint job to which he is sentenced as a pun-ishment. Gary Clifton, A Higher Hand A scientist spends a life at hard labor for having citied Euclid to prove the world is pie-shaped. Arthur Davis, The Earth Isn’t Round A space captain must make difficult decisions about saving space-alien passengers and her crew when their ship collides with an asteroid in the Kuiper Belt. Marco Etheridge, To the Lifeboat New contributor M. Frost sends Berkis on a mission that may be sabotaged by a traitor to the Wolflord. Plague: After the Water, part 1; conclusion |
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| Flash Fiction |
Temporary earthly retirement and space exploration may offer advantages to those who are not initially called to them. Charles C. Cole, Peter van Brakel’s Life Changes Course |
| Short Poetry |
Richard Fleming, The Rapture |
Memoir |
Barbara Krasner composes a memorial to an ancestor who came to America from a home seemingly At the Edge of the World early in the 20th century. |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes M. Frost. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 1080 says that some poems and stories are so clever we get all Rapt Up in them. |
| The Reading Room |
Channie Greenberg, Miscellaneous Parlor Tricks: an Omnibus excerpts |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Brain Extension 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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