The Readers’ Guide

What’s in Issue 455

Novel	Kev’s model, Dracula, was comfortable enough that he need have no patience with real-estate speculators. But impecunious Kev must start at the bottom and get with the modern program, so to speak: Phillip Donnelly, Kev the Vampire Chapter 7 : The Rapture and the Realtor Chapter 8 : The Welfare Bat
Novella	Fred is busy trying to open the door to the temple vault on Mars. Meanwhile, the authorities are on the trail of mysterious signals in southern California: Richard M. Smith, A Bridge to Earth Chapter 5 : Back Again, part 3
Drama	Cardigan proposes a nefarious scheme to Dr. Grant, and Bennett tries to tip off Lucan, for a price: Marina J. Neary, Lady With a Lamp, scene 4; scene 5; scene 6.
Short Stories	The night-time sea still fascinates an aging fisherman with its beauty in forms both small and great: Mike Florian, Fire in the Water. New contributor Terry Groves takes a slovenly automobilist on a wild ride in an eerily vampiric machine: Body Work. New contributor Joseph L. Jones introduces Emilaz, who is found by an oddly unidentifiable book with a sinister voice. It makes her an offer she must refuse: The Dealmaker, part 1; part 2; conclusion. New contributor Zarin Thomson paints a poignant picture of a youthful memory preserved by a being who is very old indeed: A Salient Point.
Flash Fiction	New contributor Nancy May recounts a typical suburban family’s evening — in the language of a space alien: The Family Whip.
Poetry	Alessandro Cusimano, Queen of All Flowers — La Virtù delle Rose Joseph Farley, Seeing Red, Seeing Green Rebecca Lu Kiernan, Five, September Mike McGonegal, Someday

Departments

Welcome	*Bewildering Stories* welcomes Terry Groves, Nancy May and Zarin Thomson.
Challenge	Challenge 455 Seeing Small, Seeing Large
The Reading Room	Kane X. Faucher, The Infinite Library, excerpt
The Art Gallery	A randomly rotating selection of Bewildering Stories’ art NASA: Picture of the Day Previous NASA photos Earth Observatory Picture of the Day Our Earth as Art *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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