Bewildering Stories welcomes...

Bruce Memblatt

Bruce is a native New Yorker. He loves the theatre and has a long-standing website devoted to Stephen Sondheim and writes a weekly newspaper series. He has published extensively in poetry and short fiction.

“A Cut Above the Rest” is an oddly infuriating short story. The premise is interesting and the characters are believable, but the action is highly implausible. And why is the story set where it is? We can just hear readers thinking now: “I can guess, but I am not going to go there!”

When a bizarre story has a real setting and a character whose career at least initially parallels that of a real person, readers are entitled to suspect a keyed story, one that is at least partially encrypted.

Bruce Memblatt’s bio sketch can be found here.

Welcome to Bewildering Stories, Bruce. We’re looking forward to further titles of yours on the official schedule.