What’s in Issue 313

Novella	Bill Bowler, Upwyr Yanosh Straker’s illusions and world have crumbled. He is saddled with a curse. He goes a-wandering, makes a friend, and meets some strange monks. Chapter 5: Wandering Soul, part 1; part 2
Serial	New contributor Nora B. Peevy introduces Miriam Manchester, who discovers an antique that can give her a new lease on life — if she knows how to make the best of it: The Mermaid’s Shadow Lamp, part 1; part 2.
Short Stories	New contributor Sue Parman plunges into the bowels of academic politics, out of which an allegenic cat may be trying to escape: Tom Cat and the Bone Lady, part 1; part 2; conclusion. Worried about the economic meltdown? You know it’s Hell when even demons are getting laid off: Angie Smibert, Devils’ Work. Worried about rogue black holes? There may be worse: do not irradiate carbon-60 with radon difluoride and send it to the edge of the universe: E. S. Strout, Buckyball. New contributor Sonya Zalubowski shows how things that go squeak in the night can relate to even bigger annoyances: Sleep in the Bed You Make.
Flash Fiction	A young lady has some decisions to make about life and art. What price realism? Bob Brill, MaryAnn Learns Who She Is. In Quebec, Indians bring babies. In France, babies are found under cabbages. In northern Europe, they’re brought by storks. And that can raise ecological problems: Bertil Falk, Stork Story.
Poetry	The poetry in this issue is selected in commemoration of the Armistice, 90 years old this week. Will Gray, Through the Mud John Stocks, On Slapton Sands

Departments

Welcome	*Bewildering Stories* welcomes Sue Parman, Nora B. Peevy, and Sonya Zalubowski.
Letters	Deep Bora, Bewildering Connections
The Art Gallery	A randomly rotating selection of Bewildering Stories’ art NASA: Picture of the Day
Excerpt	Darby Mitchell Arse Poetica

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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