The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 904
| Novel |
Carla’s son Roland has been giving his mother’s hired companion, Tom, warnings about dreams and personalities in the Morhan household. And the warnings seem to be confirmed. Jeffrey Greene, The Night Companion
Chapter 5: Roland’s Warning, part 1;
part 2
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| Novella | Kate plays cautious games in becoming acquainted with Quince and their companions on the bleak mining-company planet Oberon: Nemo West, What Kate Found in the Fringe, part 2. |
| Short Stories |
Two children — Miles and Elmira — meet in a candy store. Miles helps Elmira retrieve a wayward charm bracelet, with ultimately fateful consequences:
N. D. Coley, The Last Station, part 1;
conclusion. New contributor Leslie Edens introduces Barton and Mae, who can account for the mysterious lights in the boreal forest where they live at the World’s Edge. An aspiring writer converses with a colleague who seems to have some characteristics of a mollusc: Channie Greenberg, Partula’s Aspiration. |
| Flash Fiction |
New contributor Marion J. May reveals the conflict of two sisters who must decide who they are after the night of broken glass: Inga’s Persuasion. |
| Poetry | Lori R. Lopez, Epic Rain |
Discussion |
Bewildering Stories asks, What Are Space Aliens? |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes Leslie Edens and Marion J. May. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 904 finds that there’s no food like Family Food. |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Goddess of Dreams 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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