The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 527
| News | Bewildering Stories must bring you the sad news that our founder, publisher and close friend Jerry Wright, died of cancer on May 10th at the age of 66. A memorial service will be held at the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Kingdom Hall in Moses Lake, Washington, on June 1st. |
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| Serial | Manny and his brother fear the wormolytes in the Emerald Fields, and one of the brothers has eerie nightmares: George S. Karagiannis, The Ghost Profiler, part 1. |
| Short Stories |
New contributor Brevin Anderson introduces young Arrem, who hunts elk in the ruins of a post-apocalypse world: Island Long. New contributor Kerry Gans shows how and when a child’s trinket might become a deadly weapon: To Light and Guard. As pretty as a picture? The picture itself may have something to say about that: Arthur Mackeown, Lover Boy. New contributor Owen J. Traylor shows how a pretedermined meeting might happen by chance, all on account of The Bow-Tie. Bertha is big in many ways: Ron Van Sweringen, Big Bertha and the Big Wind. |
| Flash Fiction |
Eaves and Crowley chop logic over a potentially explosive issue: Charles C. Cole, The Most Powerful Emotion. |
| Poetry |
Carmen Ruggero, The Scent of You John Stocks, Flesh and Blood |
| Short Poetry |
Thomas F. Wylie, The Attempt |
| Memoir | In an ancient Romanian village, a new dam causes old, familiar scenes to fade away into memory: Cristina-Monica Moldoveanu, The Dam. |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes Brevin Anderson, Kerry Gans, and Owen J. Traylor. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 527 invites you to Make Your Own. |
| The Reading Room |
Matthew T. Acheson, No Further, excerpt |
| The Photo Album |
Michael E. Lloyd and Bertil Falk, Mike and Bertil at Cambridge |
| The Art Gallery |
Raechel A. Gasparac, Surfaces 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
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Copyright © May 27, 2013 by Bewildering Stories
