The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 543
| Novel |
Earl Crier, a seaman blinded in combat in WW2, awakes from nightmares in a veterans’ hospital. He can count on taking refuge in music and sometimes — not always — on the kindness of others: Sherman Smith, Two Blind Men and a Fool Prologue; Chapter 1: The Blind Man’s Dragon. |
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| Serial | Young Hannah goes to visit her grandparents at their home in the woods. Grandpa tells of Grandma’s curious comings and goings at night: Tim Simmons, What Grandma Done, part 1; part 2, (part 3; conclusion). |
| Short Stories |
An irascible old man has a strange knack for practical jokes: Thomas Lee Joseph Smith, Methinks He Protesteth Too Much. What is Brother Demas’ connection with Miss Whitson’s recurring dream and strange obsession? LaVerne Zocco, Miss Whitson’s Highest Wish. |
| Flash Fiction |
New contributor Yuliya Klochan has Maria realize why perfection is so... imperfect: The Definition of Perfection. |
| Poetry | B. Z. Niditch, Mayakovsky’s Legacy |
| Prose Poetry |
New contributor Marian Brooks, Tree Incarnation |
| Short Poetry |
Jason C. Ford, Eclipse at the Gates |
| Essay | New contributor Robert J. Meindl views the ‘distant mirrors’ of the 14th and 20th centuries and finds flowers growing from the ruins of evil: The Message of the Ruins: Reading Devastation, part 1; part 2; conclusion. |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes Marian Brooks, Yuliya Klochan and Robert J. Meindl. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 543 The Protheth of Protetht |
| 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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