The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 877
| News | Bewildering Stories is by no means all Halloween, but at Bewildering Stories. Halloween can come at any time. |
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| Novels |
Yegor is transported through the war-torn Caucasus region and delivered mysteriously into the hands of his nemesis, the vindictive Mamaev. Natan Dubovitsky, Near Zero Maria Shoenbrun, one of the original movers behind Aliens Out, not only undergoes a complete fashion makeover, she gains two new friends who have a positive influence on her outlook. Bill Kowaleski, Creative Destruction
Chapter 36: The Gun Show
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| Novella | Liesl shows Saul how to work the time tracker device. Saul follows Tommy Link to a racetrack and has unsettling premonitions: J. H. Malone, Drunk on Time, part 5. |
| Short Stories |
The spirit of Robin Hood is at work south of the border. Wait... south of which border?
Nikki Everts, Bad Grannies, part 1;
conclusion. New contributor J. B. Polk turns the fairytale of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves upside down and shakes it: And a Partridge in a Pear Tree. New contributor Steven Roisum brings in some lizards who are fed up with talk radio and just about everything else: No More Words, part 1; conclusion. |
| Flash Fiction |
At Halloween, if you swim out to a haunted island at night and a mysterious apparition delivers an oracular prohecy, you may want to ask questions. Or not: Charles C. Cole, The Lady of Lake Therese. |
| Poetry |
New contributor Angelo J. Letizia, The Pious Lie Douglas Young, The Beach Parade |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes Angelo J. Letizia, J. B. Polk and Steven Roisum. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 877 says there is no way to count the Uncounted Words. |
| The Art Gallery |
John Eric Ellison, Vampires’ Night Out 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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