The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 729
| Novel |
McCoy, Wilson and Harper investigate cold cases and meet unusual characters, some savory, others, not. Gary Clifton, The Dead Bin |
|---|---|
| Novella | Cricket’s dog, Smidge, brings back memories of Aunt Vera’s pet, Sonny: Edna C. Horning, God Has One, Too, part 6. |
| Serial | Young Jimmy meets Scarecrow while going home at night. For Jimmy and his friends, Scarecrow is not an old legend; he’s very real: Bob Lovely, Scarecrow, part 1; part 2. |
| Short Stories |
A voodoo pin cares not whom it pricks:
William Q. Belle, The Voodoo Wedding Dolls. Dr. Herbert Sanders loves Shakespeare, but his students, not so much: Ken Goldman, Busy Old Fool, Unruly Sun. |
| Poetry | Channie Greenberg, Actualized Malfeasance |
| Short Poetry |
Herb Kauderer, Watches Denny Marshall, Motion Stars |
Departments
| Challenge | Challenge 729 advises to Reset Your Watches. |
|---|---|
| The Reading Room |
Denis Bell, A Box of Dreams excerpt |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Space-Time Engine 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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