The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 817
| Novel |
Gotenba reveals to Izzalia that the gods are far more complex than she had been led to believe. Meanwhile, Telos confronts Ovid and demands more than half-truths. L. S. Popovich, Echoes From Dust |
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| Novella | Two newfound friends travel a road in a wilderness and consider their place in a world that seems more real than they. What did they and their home villages need most? Philosophers: Jeffrey Greene, To the Berginlight Bridge, part 2. |
| Short Stories |
Park Ranger Leo tells Tim, a new recruit, the rules on Tim’s first day on the job. Tim would do well to listen even more carefully to Leo’s stories about the park:
Walter Kwiatkowski, Under the Bandstand. Steve Brand, a legal assistant, participates in the reading of a will. He learns more about the family than he might ever have wanted to know: Patric Quinn, Until Death Do Us Part, part 1; conclusion. New contributor Luke Saldanha shows what a boy might learn about life from the Shedders. |
| Poetry | Oonah V. Joslin, Memories of a Raindrop |
| Essay | New contributor James Dupree outlines colorfully The Five Stages of Writing. |
| Memoir | Places take meaning from the people they serve and those who work in them: Charles C. Cole, Discovered in a Library. |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes James Dupree and Luke Saldanha. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 817 puns Rain in the Odors. |
| Letters | Balbina Yang and Bewildering Stories discuss Issue 816. |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Emerald 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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