The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 541
| Serial | Brad helps to provide care for Milton’s ailing mother. Meanwhile the Stunts’ children discover what has happened and decide they have some scores to settle: Bill McCormick, A Letter From an Editor, part 4; conclusion. |
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| Short Stories |
New contributor Katie Karambelas portrays a couple who relive a breakup five years later, as seen from the viewpoint of Dear Prudence, part 1; conclusion. Cindy has found love with a oak-running space alien. She discovers that the interstellar crime scene has some bad guys — and girls: Bill Kowaleski, Murder Among the Oaks, part 1; part 2; part 3; conclusion. Moshe eats only matzohs in memory of a horror he endured — but need his grandchild do the same? Arthur Mackeown, The Banker of Bread. |
| Flash Fiction |
An old man very much misses his dog Pudding, even to the very end: Nathaniel Johnson, Old Thompson. |
| Poetry | B. Z. Niditch, Exploration |
| Short Poetry |
Mary B. McArdle, Minor Key |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes Katie Karambelas. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 541 sees Lights Off and On. |
| 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
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