The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 919
| News | This is the last regular issue of the third quarter — summer or winter, according to your hemisphere — of 2021. Next week, we will bring you the Editors’ Choices in the Third Quarterly Review. |
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| Novel |
Kerri must leave Tiponi and Mahasani to deal with the Ageless One while she flees Darren’s pursuit. Rebecca Johnson, Keepers of the Ageless One |
| Short Stories |
A family vacations in a forest dwelling that impinges on an ominous crop circle:
Arthur Davis, The Perfect Circle, part 1;
conclusion. After sixty years, Rick returns to the footbridge where he and his school friend, Ilse, said goodbye: Ralph E. Shaffer, Return to the Bridge, part 1; conclusion. A construction foreman works at the site of his grandmother’s former dwelling. A sentimental visit? Not so much... H. E. Vogl, Buried Memories. |
| Flash Fiction |
Some artworks can seem so lifelike that one wonders where the life leaves off and the art begins: Julie Wornan, Waiters and Roses. |
| Poetry | New contributor Jack Merwin, The Three Kings of Folly: the Dying King |
Memoir |
School days may evoke strangely fond memories some seventy years later: Gary Clifton, Chickens Indeed, |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes Jack Merwin. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 919 finds that, as time goes by, we can say it’s water Over the Bridge. |
| The Art Gallery |
H. Lee Messina, Eternal Stare 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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