The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 811
| Novel |
Riku visits her hometown and welcomes Izzie as a guest. Meanwhile, Remera and Ovid discuss Izzie and Remera’s mysterious projects. L. S. Popovich, Echoes From Dust |
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| Short Stories |
On the mean streets and docks along the Texas-Louisiana border, life may look simple, but a murder investigation can become very complicated very quickly:
Gary Clifton, Harbor City Blues, part 1;
conclusion. New contributor M. L. Robinson asks what price conventional beauty, and who is A Monkey in Chameleon Skin? Sometimes a friendly home ghost-buster is right there when you think you need him: Howard Vogl, A Moan in the Night. |
| Flash Fiction |
A high-school boy sends a fond reminiscence to his Aunt Katy:
Charles C. Cole, Katy Byed. New contributor Joseph Stearman shows the importance of games for two high-school boys on Tennis Day. |
| Poetry | Ken Poyner, Alien Courting |
| Short Poetry |
Holly Day, Letting Go of the Conceit |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes M. L. Robinson and Joseph Stearman. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 811 wonders: should we be Groaning With or At? |
| The Reading Room |
Edward Ahern, Irregular Images excerpt |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Gothic Night 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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