The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 417
| Novel |
Mac takes Jonas to meet Frank, who may be able to get Jonas a job. After the comforts of home, the car radio and his automobile, Jonas finds Kabbalistic cryptograms and the prospect of violent employment unsettling. Ásgrímur Hartmannsson, Error, chapter 5 |
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| Novella |
Capt. Jim Blunt gets his marching orders from his handler Verity. Blunt goes to meet Yizm the Witch Doctor and buy information about the Charnel Spectre. Danielle L. Parker, Death King, chapter 7; chapter 8 |
| Short Stories |
A mother distraught at her son’s death in an accident finds comfort with a young man similarly bereaved: Chris Castle, Left Behind. New contributor Vivian Rinaldo introduces Carli, Leddie and Frank, a trio of unlikely friends: Name That Tune. Thomas Lee Joseph Smith takes a sarcastic view of the failed plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler: Valkyrie of the Apes. New contributor Larry Strattner sends Steven Newmann on a bus ride that takes him to a strange destination and an ominous fate: The Bus to 9th and Waldo. |
| Flash Fiction |
Antonio is a sign painter by trade, an artist by avocation. But he has a true artist’s sublime wish for perfection: Ron Van Sweringen, The Last Madonna. |
| Poetry |
Channie Greenberg, Bucking at Social Mores Arnold Hollander, Dollar-Bill Phil |
| Short Poetry |
Anna Ruiz, Angry Hippos |
| Memoir | Once you go there, even as a tourist, you can’t come back: Henry F. Tonn, An Afternoon at Buchenwald. |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes Vivian Rinaldo. |
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| Challenge |
Challenge 416 Responses: Oonah V. Joslin, on “Clear Sailing” Bewildering Stories discusses Punctuation and E. E. Cummings Challenge 417: Name That Box |
| The Reading Room |
Kenneth Weene, Memoirs From the Asylum, excerpt |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Medusa’s Tears 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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