What’s in Issue 285

Bewildering Stories News

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 Candle” Challenge 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.

Randomly selected Bewildering motto:

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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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