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What’s in Issue 285

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Novel Slawomir Rapala, The Three Kings
Duke Vahan is dead. Young Iskald is captured by the Tha-kian raiders and taken away in chains. Aboard the slave ship, Iskald meets Xunnax, a working-class boy much like himself.
Chapter II: A Line Undone, part 6
Chapter III: End of Days, part 1
Novella Bertil Falk, Eucharist for a Sinless Mankind
After vespers, Mother Saulcerite and Brother Urbanus Collectus continue their conversation about the newly discovered sinless species. The locale: McChurch, with a eucharist of McBurgers and McSoda Pop...
Chapter 1: The Bureau of Salvation, part 1, section 3; part 2
Serial Waldo Wilden says his last goodbyes to his cemetery mates as the Grimreaperco repo men come to evict him from his grave: Bob Friedman, Graveless in South Cynica, part 2.
Short
Stories
Did you ever wonder what happened to the comic-book superhero The Comet? Now you’ll know: Kevin Ahearn, The Comet is Coming!.

New contributor Shelly Jasperson depicts a young girl frozen in post-traumatic stress despite her Nightmare Catcher.

New contributor John Kuhn depicts two unfair trials and the ultimate truth they failed to reveal: All-White Jury, part 1; conclusion.

New contributor Mark Lawrence takes a repentant hero on a trip through a mythological underworld: The Basement, part 1; conclusion.
Flash
Fiction
What feelings may be hidden... behind a TerraMaster spacesuit? Ian Cordingley, Singapore.

Where do the victims go after an explosion? Oonah V Joslin, Blast.

It’s never so hot or cold but thinking makes it so: Tim Simmons, Cold Heat.
Poetry Mari Mitchell, Harvesting Ideas
Short
Poetry
New contributor Chadwick Green, Jam On, In No Particular Flavour
John Grey, A Cuban Cryogenically Preserved
R D Larson, Brain Dead
Memoir New contributor S. H. Linden says you may want to scout the restaurant carefully before having A Late Lunch.

Departments

Welcome Bewildering Stories welcomes Chadwick Green, John Grey, John Kuhn, Mark Lawrence, and S. H. Linden.
The Critics’
Corner
Don Webb analyzes The Structure of “Singapore”
Challenge Challenge 284 response: Rachel Parsons writes about “Lighting the CandleChallenge 285 Waiting at the Transubstance Station
Contest 4 Clyde Andrews, Five Ways to Please the Kids
Letters S. H. Linden writes about A Surreptitious Cigar
The Art
Gallery
NASA: Endeavour Spacewalk 11
NASA: Picture of the Day
The Reading
Room
Bertil Falk reviews Leigh Brackett, Lorelei of the Red Mist: Planetary Romances.

Bewildering Stories News

Milestones: Michael E. Lloyd, manager of the Titles, Authors, Genres Index, reports that as of this issue Bewildering Stories has surpassed 2,500 titles — and we’re only three-fourths of the way through Year 6. Meanwhile, remember what our home page says: all of Bewildering Stories is on line — all the time.

Bewildering Stories welcomes John Grey, whose poetry first appeared in issue 6.

Reviews: Thanks to Lewayne L. White for bringing the Reviews index up to date for the first quarter.

Bewildering Press: Colin P. Davies’ Tall Tales on the Iron Horse has a very substantial review at The Fix Short Fiction Review.


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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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