The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 403
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Robert has a solid, honest trade, with good friends to match. But without Jane's steadying hand, Peter begins to realise his vision of a very different way of life. Years later, playboy Peter is persuaded to return to England for a very special event. And special events often come in threes. Michael E. Lloyd, Donna’s Men Book III: At Home With Robert
Chapter 4: Brain and Brawn, part 1; part 2 Chapter 5: Summer Nights, part 1 |
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| Novella |
DJ has accomplished his dream of bringing Sakura a lovely gem. Suddenly he is snatched away to face the Council of Elders, who take a dim view of DJ’s career. Oonah V. Joslin, A Genie in a Jam Chapter 15: An Impossible Jam
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| Short Stories |
New contributor Terri Fleming introduces Toby and Tamara, strange siblings on a collision course from which the loser will not emerge. But which of them will it be? That’s hard to say: The Eradication of a Loser. New contributor Tim Jeffreys has an innocent bank executive kidnapped by a madman. The object is not money but an impossible power: Their Eyes Were Flints. New contributor Terry Light poses a conundrum: can androids be both intelligent and emotionless in a place of beauty? Androids in the Garden. New contributor Frances Pauli proves the value of the power of distraction in video games: A Brief Interruption. New contributor David J. Rank shows that life may not be all it’s cracked up to be in This Gated Community. |
| Flash Fiction |
Which changes more in a traditional classroom: the subject or the students? Phillip Donnelly, Future Perfect Continuous. |
| Poetry |
John Stocks, A Night in the ‘White Hart’, Lincoln Chris Vaillancourt, Blood and Feathers |
| Short Poetry |
Anna Ruiz, Memories of Willoughby |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes Terri Fleming, Tim Jeffreys, Terry Light, Frances Pauli, and David J. Rank. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 403 conjugates in The Future Ridiculous Tense. |
| Letters | Carmen Ruggero and Don Webb, Call Your Apple, Raise You a Pineapple. |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Daughter of Helios NASA: Picture of the Day Sky and Telescope, This Week’s Sky at a Glance |
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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