The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 625
| Novel |
What if one offered to purchase a dedication found in Lawrence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy? Such a bargain might affect the career of Fred Looseman, also known as Floozman. The letter to Mr. Sterne concludes with a speculation: How might space travel affect the evolution of noses? Bertrand Cayzac, Floozman in Space |
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| Serial |
Love, gossip and academic politics seem to know no worldly bounds: Channie Greenberg, The Perils of Dr. Laura Whitfield |
| Short Stories |
New contributor M. Christian shows that when a fictional villain tries to disrupt a story, you really know the game is afoot: The Scarlet Pencil, part 1; conclusion. Air Marshall William Cozad is working overtime on a flight with an old flame. He suspects from the beginning that something has gone wrong. Little does he know what will: Gary Clifton, At Heaven’s Threshold, part 1; conclusion. |
| Drama | Above all, a pyrokinetic needs stability: Charles C. Cole, Fire Fly. |
| Flash Fiction |
Why are elders revered in some societies? They can offer good advice, such as “Don’t make the mistakes I made”: Anthony Lukas, Just a Little Adjustment. |
| Poetry |
Bertil Falk, Reading the Rök Stone Tendai R. Mwanaka, A Portfolio of Defiance |
| Short Poetry |
Carmen Ruggero, Elation |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes M. Christian. |
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| Editorial | Don Webb converses with Dead Narrators and Ghosts. |
| The Art Gallery |
Daniel Ayles, Ritual 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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