The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 732
| Novel |
McCoy discovers a part of the car bomb and finds a toy store clerk who can help identify it. Later the same day, another contact is brutally murdered. Gary Clifton, Dead Bin |
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| Novella |
Krista meets an old friend, Dara Jacobs, and plays for her Gavin McLeod’s telephone message. At the funeral home, she meets Gavin’s father. Later, a nightmare confirms her motivation to investigate the cause of Gavin’s violent death. Morris J. Marshall, Volatility Cycles |
| Short Stories |
An insurance investigator is approached in the case of an allegedly stolen oil painting. It’s going to be fun; he and almost everyone involved are somewhat short on scruples:
Edward Ahern, The Purloined Oil, part 1; conclusion. Ricky is caught in a constant whirlwind of his parents’ mutual recriminations. What is his best — or least bad — option? Gregory E. Lucas, Remnants of the Nest, part 1; conclusion. |
| Flash Fiction |
New contributor Emma Grave cuts immediately to the chase, where Roanna runs, and her pursuers are in full cry: Stop, Thief! |
| Short Poetry |
Mike Acker, Late Evening Walk Oonah V. Joslin, Goodbye, Cassini |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes Emma Grave. |
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| Challenge |
Challenge 731 Response calculates what’s involved in Taking a Fall. Challenge 732 wonders about them eggs, them eggs, them Blue Eggs. |
| Letters | Bewildering Stories finds Humour in a Coffee Cup. |
| The Reading Room |
Channie Greenberg, Ten Kilo and One Million excerpt |
| The Art Gallery |
Denny Marshall, Climbing a Web 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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