The Readers’ Guide

What’s in Issue 552

Novel	Earl wakens to discover what steps Elroy and his puppet, Herbert Mann, are taking to impose their authority. Sherman Smith, Two Blind Men and a Fool Chapter 13: Where Does One Begin?
Novella	Persephone and Jim Driscoll have married, but now we see how hard it was for them to achieve it. Mark Bonica, Spiraling In 11: FPP Year 821 12: FPP Year 832
Short Stories	New contributor O. D. Hegre tells of an aged man who welcomes a visitation he once witnessed many years before: The Guardian. New contributor Rudy Ravindra tells a love story that could end badly in many ways: The Ambitious Girl, part 1; part 2; conclusion. Want to time travel? Not so fast there; take Aunt Bessie’s advice and cast all the right spells first: João Ventura, RTFM — Especially Aunt Bessie’s — Viagem no Tempo.
Flash Fiction	An old kerchief becomes a last object of contention between a man and wife: Charles C. Cole, Silverfish.
Poetry	Oonah V. Joslin, Between Seasons Visalakshi Viswanathan, Somewhere in Gundaroo

Departments

Welcome	*Bewildering Stories* welcomes O. D. Hegre and Rudy Ravindra.
The Critics’ Corner	*Bewildering Stories* discusses “Spiraling In”
Challenge	Challenge 552 says “Awe Shocks” about Coronaroogeddon.
The Reading Room	Danielle L. Parker, A Shopping List: Cookbooks You Can Read
The Photo Album	Richard Ong photographs a Coronal Mass Ejection.
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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