The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 576
| Short Stories |
New contributor Brooke Bartleson depicts the fates of two star-crossed and recrossed lovers: Emmaline and Alander. Where’s a devil when you really need one? Down home in New Jersey: Walter Giersbach, Dancing with the Jersey Devil. An interstellar rescue mission has to decide what a rescue would mean: Jeremy Szal, Contact Zero, part 1; conclusion. |
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| Flash Fiction |
A mysterious note-writer leaves a cryptic problem in phonetics: Charles C. Cole, This Means Warma. |
| Poetry | Michael D. Amitin, Violins for Sherry |
| Short Poetry |
New contributor Mark Jones, Double Feature |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes Brooke Bartleson and Mark Jones. |
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| The Critics’ Corner |
Bewildering Stories discusses “The Deathless Hand” |
| Challenge |
Challenge 575 Response ponders whether to Run or Roll? Challenge 576 trembles before Apocalypses Then and Now. |
| The Reading Room |
Want a scary story? Want two, both true? You have been warned... Don Webb reviews Eric H. Cline, 1177 B.C., The Year Civilization Collapsed. |
| 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
Readers’ reactions are always welcome.
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