The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 558
| News | Your Managing Editor is home again after a week away. E-mail has been sporadic, and it will take several days to catch up. Please be patient. |
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| Novel |
Stella finds her friends at Gibby’s bar. They listen intently as Earl reveals a military secret. Sherman Smith, Two Blind Men and a Fool Chapter 22: Lights’ Last Gleaming, part 1; part 2
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| Serial | Daniel Blight discovers the awful truth about Raptura. The choice he has to make is a difficult one for a number of reasons: Adam C. Richardson, Happy Planet, part 3; conclusion. |
| Short Stories |
Do you enjoy Hollywood horror movies? Here’s a scenario that would be very hard to top: Martin Hill Ortiz, I Walked With a Vambie. Milton Harrington, an aspiring young physician, is plagued by a succubus. Dealing with a demon is only one of his problems: John W. Steele, The Phantom Lover, part 1; conclusion. |
| Flash Fiction |
New contributor Melissa Davis depicts a bereft widower trying to contact his late wife: Snow Falls. New contributor Dawn Wilson reports a conversation with a hungry giant who isn’t too particular about taste: Please Don’t Eat My Father. |
| Poetry | New contributor Julie Finch, Back to Hank |
| Short Poetry |
New contributor Tyrean Martinson, Robot Sonnet New contributor Lawrence Weber, The Writing Chair |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes Melissa Davis, Julie Finch, Tyrean Martinson, Lawrence Weber, and Dawn Wilson. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 558 invites you to Sit on the Beanbag. |
| Paul Celan |
Clarise Samuels, Holocaust Visions: The Poetry of Paul Celan |
| 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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