What’s in Issue 363

Serial	Mother Saulcerite is elevated to the papacy as Mope Johanna Paula XI. An apocalypse ensues: Bertil Falk, Apocalypse for a Dissociated Creator The First Latch The Second Seal
Short Stories	Espionage is carried to an entirely new level in a nanotechnology arms race: Bill Bowler, Robo-Bug, part 1; conclusion. A soldier’s predetermined fate says volumes about the war itself: Ian Cordingley, We Are the Dead. It’s past 2001 and time for Nemo and Kafka to embark on a post-Nietzschean space odyssey: Gary Inbinder, Nemo and Kafka Beyond Good and Evil. New contributor Lily Mulholland implies that root canals performed by space aliens might actually be fun if the patient were awake: Dental Check. New contributor Rochelle Potkar depicts a Bollywood hopeful in the throes of cruelty born of despair: The Guest, part 1; conclusion.
Flash Fiction	Is the voice one that St. Francis might have heard? Ron Van Sweringen, A Time to Fly.
Poetry	Oonah V. Joslin, A Dream of Lost Marina J. Neary, Polish Funeral Anna Ruiz, I Once Saw a Flowered Dress
Essay	Even the sea has its territories: Tom Mahony, Sharky.

Departments

Welcome	*Bewildering Stories* welcomes Lily Mulholland and Rochelle Potkar.
Challenge	Challenge 363 wonders Is This Going to Hurt?
The Art Gallery	A randomly rotating selection of Bewildering Stories’ art NASA: Picture of the Day Earth Observatory Picture of the Day

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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