The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 445
| Novel |
Donas learns the dread secret of the forbidden Storytellers’ Hall. Or does she? Mary B. McArdle, Give Them Wine
A Disparity of Language, chapter 19
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| Novella | Having heard a polarized political debate, the tavernkeeper goes off to argue with herself: Maxwell Jameson, The Man With a City in His Head, part 6; part 7. |
| Serial |
Tiger King Bole and Queen Ella prepare a new generation to receive their kingdom: Hongping Liu, The King of the Forest
Part III : Ella, Stream and Sis
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| Short Stories |
When in the company of a horse, don’t be grass: Glenn Blakeslee, A Man and a Horse. An unemployed autodidact raids scholarly conferences for their snacks: Bertil Falk, The Man Who Turned Darwin Upside Down. Adventurers seek treasure guarded by a giant hand: S. J. McKenzie, Great Hand. Bill Foley keeps an appointment with Hannah Moraine, but afterwards nobody can remember seeing either of them where they were supposed to be: Richard Ong, Dead Nightingale. |
| Flash Fiction |
In a future dystopia, trafficking in the past is forbidden: Phillip Donnelly, Necronet Explorer. Are you responsible for what you did while you were a rabbit? Farida Samerkhanova, Never Trust Witches. |
| Poetry |
Rebecca Lu Kiernan, The Tiger Has Come to Town Laura G. Weldon, Sacrifice |
| Short Poetry |
Mike McGonegal, Fried Bacon |
Departments
| The Critics’ Corner |
Don Webb, Contractions |
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| Challenge |
Challenge 444 Response: Comedy and Realism in “Josh Henry” Challenge 445: Who’s Got the Function? |
| The Art Gallery |
A randomly rotating selection of Bewildering Stories’ art 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
Readers’ reactions are always welcome.
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Copyright © August 29, 2011 by Bewildering Stories
