The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 598
| Serial | New contributor Dave Ervin puts Travis Burbage into a jam. Travis is convinced he’s just an ordinary guy, but a murderer begs to differ: The Thirteenth Traveler, chapter I; chapter II. |
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| Short Stories |
The San-Lo Gate is the only passage into an impregnable realm. But even such a narrow gate needs more than one gatekeeper: Gary Clifton, The Keeper of the San Lo Gate. New contributor Timothy Kay brings Anton to a dentist’s office, where Basma will perform a root canal. She’s Anton’s ex-girlfriend: Virtually Painless Dentistry. New contributor Adam Randolph depicts an old professor who seems to be shut out of his own world. But why? And is it his world? Teddy Bow. |
| Flash Fiction |
Remember this handy signal: three of anything spaced equidistantly in a row. You may need it when you’re out digging for wealth on a desert island: Charles C. Cole, Prospecting on Island X. |
| Poetry | Anna Ruiz, Vitruvian Man |
| Short Poetry |
Zane Blom, Far From Home |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes Dave Ervin, Timothy Kay, and Adam Randolph. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 598 sees signs of a New Shape Age. |
| Letters | James Shaffer and Bewildering Stories discuss “The Sound of Breaking Glass.” |
| The Reading Room |
Mike McNichols, A Body Given : excerpt |
| The Art Gallery |
Crystalwizard, Alien West 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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