The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 851
| Novels |
Yegor wakes up gradually to a new day. His ex-wife Svetza calls. It’s Yegor’s parent day with their daughter, Nastya. And he will take her to see Dr. Belensky the next day. Yegor and Sveta avoid their customary quarreling. Natan Dubovitsky, Near Zero
Chapter 14: Chetirnadtsat’
Salesman-Drake lands at a remote mine in Africa and makes the manager a very attractive offer. Bill Kowaleski, Creative Destruction
Chapter 10: The Salesman Gets a Partner
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| Short Stories |
A barkeep on an interstellar waystation survives a customer event and develops a strategy for success and happiness:
Ken Poyner, You Might Have To Leave Home To Succeed. When Tormot Sompo goes on a quest to find a cure for an incurable disease, Reality teaches him a lesson about the nature of time: James Rumpel, A Quest for Heaven, part 1; conclusion. |
| Flash Fiction |
A date for a kind of high-school prom that comes years late? Better late than never. Yes, much better: Charles C. Cole, The 50th Annual Life Partner Shindig. |
| Poetry | Oonah V. Joslin, Apollo 13 |
| Short Poetry |
Harris Coverley, A Rant on Man: an Anti-Misanthropy James Robert Rudolph, There Is No Malibu Cred in Santa Fe Michael Wooff, A Dizain for Palissy |
Departments
| Challenge |
Challenge 850 Response discusses Knock-Knock with Cheryl W. Ruggiero. Challenge 851 figures wishes may sometimes come true, sometimes partly, sometimes not. The result seems to be a Wish Wash. |
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| The Reading Room |
Channie Greenberg, The Nexus of the Sun, the Moon and Mother excerpt |
| 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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