The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 900
| Novel |
Recent college graduate Tom Hanauer answers a classified ad for a “night companion.” The duties are simple, but Tom will soon learn that the hours are only the first thing that he will find strange about his new job. Jeffrey Greene, The Night Companion
Chapter 1: The Interview and a Belated Discovery
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| Serial | Lili takes help where she can find it, even if she does need to make a Faustian bargain to ensure fair treatment: Bill Prindle, Her Favorite Demon, part 3; conclusion. |
| Short Stories |
Pim is a foundling who becomes a houskeeper for the Enyon family. She has “possibility” that is realized in an unexpected way:
R. C. Capasso, Pim and the Enyons. Is good advice worth what it cost you? Usually, but not always: Channie Greenberg, Not Rumpel’štíl’cxen. New contributor A. L. Scheuer brings classic-car enthusiasts from the future. They dispense advice to onlookers who can perceive the Car Guys. |
| Poetry | Ken Poyner, Productive Exile |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes A. L. Scheuer, |
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| Challenge |
Challenge 899 Response:
Michael E. Lloyd, Piloting the Plover
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| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Chrysalis 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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