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Bewildering Stories

The Readers’ Guide

What’s in Issue 587

Novel Razvan says he needs Kyran to guide him across the desert. But who is really leading whom?
Sarah Ann Watts, Winter Ship
Chapter 11: Night Has Come, part 1; part 2
Novella The saddest tragedy is one that ends before it begins.
Tantra Bensko, Equinox Mirror
Chapter 14: Lucky’s Mother Chooses, conclusion
Short
Stories
New contributor R. C. Capasso has an Earthling scientist learn from the Baleg that sentient beings can reach the same conclusions about life in very different ways: In the Economy of Life, part 1; conclusion.

New contributor F. Hampton Carmine asks What if the last man on Earth isn’t a man? What might it be able to tell mankind? The Great Tree’s Last Thoughts.

Remember, the old saying “You are what you eat” is a warning: Heather J. Frederick, The Scientist’s Garden.
Flash
Fiction
Where does inspiration come from in writing fiction? Mainly from a dialogue between the author and work: Oonah V. Joslin, Blizzard.
Poetry John Grey, The Perfect Man
Short
Poetry
B. Z. Niditch, Aboard the S.S. Pushkin

Departments

Welcome Bewildering Stories welcomes R. C. Capasso and F. Hampton Carmine.
Challenge Challenge 587 heeds the poet who says The Mouth Listens.
Letters Bewildering Stories discusses Cassandra’s Voices : with Noel Joslin
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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