The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 685
| Novel |
A “wealthy” hires young Jiri from his poverty-stricken “enclave.” The bonus awarded Jiri’s mother is a princely sum for her but a paltry one for a “wealthy.” Bill Kowaleski, Living Standards |
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| Serial | Nick Andrews has been fired from his hack-writing job at True Crime magazine. Not only is his talent liberated, so are his characters: Bill Prindle, Ghost Writers, part 3; part 4. |
| Short Stories |
New contributor Louis Brierley brings a mysterious but fair-playing visitor to the bedside of a hospitalized girl: The Midnight Man. New contributor Julianne Carew depicts an accidentally disfigured girl who is reunited with her dead mother by way of an avatar: Mirrors. New contributor John Cooper Hamilton cautions against the consequences of “easy credit”: Egg Basket. Humans may not be the only ones who can be divided into “cat” and “dog” people: Roger PItcher, The Splon Is a Lonely Hunter. |
| Flash Fiction |
New contributor Betsy Isbell shows how it is possible to tell two different stories at the same time. Just choose your words carefully: Heave(n) for Don(e) Pedro. |
| Short Poetry |
Shola Balogun, The Rose on the Cross Lana Bella, She Is Twice Touched and Once Recoiled |
| Memorial Reissue |
Susan A. Hagedorn, Immortality |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes Louis Brierley, Julianne Carew, John Cooper Hamilton, and Betsy Isbell. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 685 plays with (Paren)thesis and Antithesis. |
| Letters | Cheryl W. Ruggiero, Remembering Susan Hagedorn |
| The Reading Room |
Edward Ahern, Capricious Visions excerpt |
| The Art Gallery |
Denny Marshall, Ceremony 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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