The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 836
| Serial | Marty and Bishop make a daring escape from a prison work party. Bishop wants out, but Marty has strange ideas of his own: John Haymaker, The Legend of Potter’s Field. part 3; conclusion. |
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| Short Stories |
Private Eye Dave Kratzert is hired by a rich and beautiful widow to investigate threatening phone calls. He uncovers a conspiracy of monumental proportions:
Gary Clifton, Hold That Hot Phone, part 1;
conclusion. Huang, a detective from Hong Kong, is engaged to thwart a terrorist bomber in a modern Tower of Babel in Tokyo: Walter Giersbach, Secret Agent in Sky City. An explorer awaits first contact with the Yeti, high in the Himalayas. His diplomatic mission takes some strange and cryptic turns: Jeffrey Greene, This House Is Unguarded, part 1; conclusion. |
| Flash Fiction |
Want to get rid of tiresome roommates? Use disinformation:
Charles C. Cole, Hiking With Angels. Tony and Heather take a vacation trip to Canada. It’s lovely and peaceful, but a little excitement may be on the menu, even at Tim Horton’s: Jerry Guarino, Bullets for Dessert. |
| Poetry | Jeremy N. Marks, The Ten Plagues |
| Short Poetry |
David Whippman, Freudian Greatness |
| Essay | Remember Virgil’s Æneid: “I fear Greeks, even when they come bearing gifts.” Similar caution is warranted in today’s mass communications, where truth and preconceptions can be exploited to disguise lies: Jessica ‘Zhanna’ Malekos Smith, The Magpies and the Cuckoos: A Disinformation Fable. |
Departments
| Challenge |
Challenge 836 wages Trade Peace. Challenge 836 Response to The Legend of Potter’s Field |
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| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Tangled Hearts 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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