Issue 663

Novel	Elous Telma, Oikos Nannion Chapter 14: Nannion’s Long Walk Back
Novellas	Terry L. Mirll, Karat Cake, conclusion Bruce Pavalon, Space Girl Blues Chapter 19: She’s Not There
Short Stories	Gary Clifton, Another New Guy, part 1; conclusion Mindy Hartings, Waiting in Carthagena, part 1; conclusion Sherman Smith, The Old Woman With the Little White Box
Poetry	Douglas Young, Forest Lessons
Short Poetry	Denny Marshall, Two Kings Joan McNerney, I Planted My Garden

Welcome	Bewildering Stories welcomes... Mindy Hartings and Joan McNerney
The Critics’ Corner	Bewildering Stories discusses “Karat Cake”
Challenge	Challenge 663: All Hail the Purpose
The Reading Room	James Graham, Becoming a Tree excerpt
The Art Gallery	Denny Marshall, Space #25 Richard Ong, Greetings From the Pomeranian Potentate of Pluto A randomly rotating selection of Bewildering Stories’ art NASA: Picture of the Day Earth Observatory Picture of the Day Previous NASA photos Our Earth as Art Sky and Telescope, This Week’s Sky at a Glance