The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 603
| Novel |
Rodney Neumann describes his trek into a remote area of the Himalayas. He recounts his impressions of Dr. Necroanus and especially his Sherpa guide, Thrangu. John W. Steele, The Chronicle of Belthaeous |
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| Short Stories |
New contributor Judith A. Boss tells how an operation gives a patient more than he might have bargained for: Slice of Life. New contributor Keith Frady gives modern twists to a set of old fairy tales and, in the process, implies an interesting question: How might they end? The Dragon Said to the Knight. |
| Flash Fiction |
New contributor Saor Hawk introduces a son who realizes that he doesn’t know his mother — or himself — as well as he thought: The Program. |
| Short Poetry |
Jack Phillips Lowe, Where This Was Going |
| Memoirs |
Stephen Ellams recalls a eulogy At St. James Church. Douglas Young depicts a tourist who discovers that it’s often the little things that count the most when An American Visits China. |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes Judith A. Boss, Keith Frady, and Saor Hawk. |
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| Challenge |
Challenge 567 Response: Gary Clifton discusses the reality behind “The Never Index” Challenge 602 Response: Cyrano Meets Charlie Hebdo with Bertrand Cayzac Challenge 603 puzzles over the Sequence of Events. |
| The Reading Room |
JD DeHart, The Brass Man : excerpt |
| The Art Gallery |
Crystalwizard, ET Reader 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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