The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 850
| Novels |
Yegor and Crybaby are a couple of whom one might say, “They deserve each other.” Natan Dubovitsky, Near Zero
Chapter 13: Trinadtsat’
Maria Schoenbrun seizes upon the Cygnians and their fusion power as targets for her repressed rage. Miles helps her organize it with disconcerting enthusiasm. Bill Kowaleski, Creative Destruction
Chapter 9: The Manifesto
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| Serial | Manfred must play till dawn an unheard melody on the silver flute lest the Arrow of Time be broken: Daniel Stride, A Breath Through Silver, part 3; conclusion. |
| Short Stories |
A real treasure is not a luxury; it’s something you need and is irreplaceable:
Walt Giersbach, Treasure in the Jersey Barrens. New contributor John Mara takes war casualties on a quest for what might have been. It’s all recorded in The Skeleton’s Scrapbook, part 1; conclusion. |
| Flash Fiction |
Compassion can avoid compounding a catastrophe:
Gary Clifton, False Start. Computers can translate words but not meaning. Remember that when space aliens don’t get your jokes: Cheryl Wood Ruggiero, Knock-Knock. |
| Poetry |
Gary Beck, Ghost Town Robin Helweg-Larsen, Hilltops |
| Short Poetry |
LindaAnn LoSchiavo, Every Theatre Hosts a Ghost |
Memoir |
Sometimes a call for help may also be a call for validation: Charles C. Cole, Owning My Mistake. |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes John Mara. |
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| The Critics’ Corner |
Bewildering Stories poses A Comma Quiz. Bewildering Stories inveighs against erratic Line Breaks. |
| Challenge | Challenge 850 asks not for whom the bell tolls but On Whom the Joke’s Told. |
| The Art Gallery |
John Eric Ellison, Walking With a Pet 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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