The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 554
| News |
This is the last regular issue of Bewildering Stories in 2013. Next week we’ll bring you the editors’ choices in the Fourth Quarterly Review and, the week after, in the 2013 Annual Review. We resume regular publication with issue 555 on January 6, 2014. Best wishes to our readers, contributors and editors for merrie holidays and a happy New Year! |
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| Novel |
Earl Crier has been robbed and cast out on the street. He searches for a friend of Henry Akita’s. Pursued and trapped by the “dragon” of dark memories, Earl finds he is still at war; only the setting has changed. Sherman Smith, Two Blind Men and a Fool |
| Short Stories |
In an invasion, a hostile land can be a defender’s best ally: Colin W. Campbell, The Chess Player of the Desert. At Carnival time in Venice, what might one find in an old curiosity shop? Very likely a peau de chagrin: Ross Smeltzer, The Masque of Ascension, part 1; part 2; conclusion. Sometimes art can provide the most vivid visual memories: Ron Van Sweringen, The Last Rose of Summer. |
| Flash Fiction |
What’s important in life is not what happens before or after, it’s what happens in between: Sam Bellotto Jr., Finding Miss Penelope. |
| Poetry |
Oonah V. Joslin, Death Among the Apples Visalakshi Viswanathan, In Memphis |
| Short Poetry |
New contributor John F. Keane, Lord of Time |
Departments
| Season’s Greetings |
Where is home? That’s less important than what it is: Roch Carrier, Coming Home, Going Home : tr. Don Webb |
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| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes John F. Keane. |
| Challenge | Challenge 554 seeks high and low and Both Here and There. |
| Letters |
Kenneth Harmon tells how Success Began at Bewildering Stories. Oonah V. Joslin explicates “Death Among the Apples.” |
| 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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