The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 716
| News | This issue inaugurates a new Department, “The Music Hall.” |
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| Novel |
When a revolution becomes a government, what becomes of the revolutionaries? Bill Kowaleski, Living Standards
Chapter 36: Massacres
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| Novella | Michael and Bess experience young love, but Michael and his father must return home from Hatch Island. The trip may be longer than they realize: Bill Prindle, Somewhere Beyond the Sea, part 6; part 7. |
| Short Stories |
Don’t mock birds. The owl has the last hoot:
Walter Kwiatkowski, The Joke. New contributor Susanne Thomas has Rebekah and her three children leave their crowded, inner-city apartment for a seemingly beautiful house in the suburbs, one that is complete with A White Picket Fence, part 1; conclusion. |
| Flash Fiction |
When you’ve jumped out of the frying pan, be sure to have bus fare out of the fire: Gary Clifton, Home Free. |
| Poetry | Sarah Ann Watts, Attrition |
| Short Poetry |
Shola Balogun, I, Too, Shall Anoint the Stones Allison Grayhurst, Safe in You Douglas Young, Mississippi Train Ride |
Departments
| The Critics’ Corner |
Bewildering Stories says that one can never be too careful in Choosing Names. |
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| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes Susanne Thomas. |
| Challenge | Challenge 716 advises you to Check Your Calendar. |
| The Music Hall |
Ada Fetters, Clark at Neumos |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Triton’s Daughter 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
Readers’ reactions are always welcome.
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