The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 566
| Novel |
The good news is that Dr. Garrity did not kill Elroy. That’s also the bad news. Ivory is making great progress but needs more surgery. A mysterious letter arrives for Henry. Brooks is adapting to life at Gibby’s bar, and Earl wonders where Stella has gone. Sherman Smith, Two Blind Men and a Fool |
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| Novella |
New contributor J. J. Roth introduces original builders of Stonehenge. The monument may have a purpose beyond the one the builders have in mind: Legacy of the Fallen Stars
Chapter 1: The Taurids — 3000 BCE, part 1; part 2
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| Short Stories |
A biologist fills in for a lighthouse keeper on the Atlantic coast. The old keeper departs with a warning and leaves a record of a haunting: Arthur Davis, The Curse of the Lighthouse, part 1; conclusion. New contributor Michael S. Stewart shows that Heaven will have to wait till A Crew Comes Home to Port, part 1; conclusion. New contributor Rob Walker shows how meek Norman can take sinister initiative from his Mirrored Image. |
| Flash Fiction |
What’s best to do when you need a push in a snowstorm? Don’t call your ex: Charles C. Cole, Independences. What is a romantic dinner when you don’t have the stomach for it? Julie Wornan, Anniversary Celebration. |
| Poetry | John Grey, Journey’s End |
| Short Poetry |
B. Z. Niditch, On the Arbat |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes J. J. Roth, Michael S. Stewart, and Rob Walker. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 566 thinks that dead letter is a Live Letter. |
| The Reading Room |
Clarise Samuels, Fairy Tales for the Bourgeoisie, excerpt |
| 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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