What’s in Issue 312
| Novella | Janeway, Nino and Faust take care of the ‘bad guys’, but Faust has a change of heart: S. H. Linden, A Stacked Deck, part 9; conclusion. |
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| Serial | Financial superhero Floozman does as much as he can before reverting to Fred Looseman. Now the rest of the bail-out is up to the traveling circus: Bertrand Cayzac, Floozman and the Traveling Entertainers, conclusion. |
| Short Stories |
New contributor Michael D. Brooks shows disgruntled workers taking a cue from Agatha Christie in weaving The Water Cooler Conspiracy. A prisoner contemplates crime and punishment, freedom and unfreedom, the real and the ideal: Neil Crabtree, Assume. New contributor Dylan Fox depicts a family’s twists in time: The 14:08 from Liverpool Street. New contributor Clark Gilbert, recounts a crisis in the day of an accountant who has an eidetic memory: The Day of Concern, part 1; conclusion. Leonard is fixated on the menace of birds, but he alone is aware of it: John W. Steele, Birdman, part 1; conclusion. |
| Flash Fiction |
New contributor Robert Andersen takes an airline trip of self-sacrifice: Pan Am Jesus. Oonah V Joslin warns us not to be sure that frankenfoods Don’t Grow on Trees. New contributor Chris Yodice shows a hopeful picture from The Not Too Late Show. |
| Poetry | Anna Ruiz, The Lotus Eaters and the Cloud People |
| Short Poetry |
Stuart Sharp, Anti-Haiku |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes Michael D. Brooks, Dylan Fox, Clark Gilbert, and Chris Yodice. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 312 Let’s Begin at the End... |
| The Art Gallery |
A randomly rotating selection of Bewildering Stories’ art NASA: Picture of the Day |
| The Reading Room |
Danielle L. Parker reviews Marie Brennan, Midnight Never Come |
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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