The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 821
| Novel |
Izzie and Riku agree to go to Dust together, but each for her own reasons. L. S. Popovich, Echoes From Dust
Chapter 43: Forgiveness
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| Serial | New contributor Robb White depicts the dreadful aftereffects of Adam Hayworth’s periodontal operation, among which are shadowy demons from Adam’s Pandemonium, part 1; part 2. |
| Short Stories |
New contributor Judson Blake takes some cheerful but heedless people on a very dark trip with The Cantalino Bus Ride, part 1;
conclusion. Poor Owmapow continues his struggles to get a contract with a lonely, haggard editor at Smells Fishy Publishing: Channie Greenberg, Dogged Dr. Owen. Do you have an addiction you’d like cured? Try some friendly aversion therapy at Brugo’s magic beach: Harrison Kim, The Tarantula Cure. Organisms that have no genders need to help each other when they’re invading hosts who do have them: Demetrios Matsakis, Whatever Works. |
| Flash Fiction |
Maintaining peace in the borderlands sometimes calls for quiet but forceful diplomacy: Charles C. Cole, A Perfect Day for Alewife Fishing. |
| Poetry |
Oonah V. Joslin, The Suddenness of Scent New contributor Stefan Schutte, Libertalia |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes Judson Blake, Stefan Schutte and Robb White. |
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| Letters | Bewildering Stories advises on Printing Pages. |
| The Photo Album |
Don Webb and Charlie Cole |
| The Art Gallery |
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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