Issue 696

Novel	Bill Kowaleski, Living Standards Chapter 12: A Visit to Joliet
Short Stories	Rob Crandall, Karlo’s Curiosity Shop Channie Greenberg, As Dead as David Mark Keane, The Interview Bill Prindle, Cat With a Young Woman, part 1; conclusion
Poetry	Richard Stevenson, Sleep Paralysis Douglas Young, A Life Worthwhile
Short Poetry	Shola Balogun, The Griot’s Hymn Denny Marshall, Time Shift 33

Challenge	Challenge 696: The Lay of the Land
Letters	Thank-You Notes The Old and New Years
The Reading Room	Mileva Anastasiadou, The Twelve Hits of Christmas excerpt from Ellipsis
The Art Gallery	Richard Ong, Vulcan’s Forge 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