The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 934
| Novella | Arabelle comforts a pig farmer and barely survives an assassination attempt. Moralt pursues a fleeing intruder who had been trying to sneak in under the tent: David Samuels, Red He Wept, part 3. |
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| Short Stories |
The chronicle of the ill-fated relationships of Doris, Kiplinger, and Jorge might outline a year’s worth of television episodes:
Channie Greenberg, New Intimacies. New contributor Anthony David Vernon imagines a new version of The Book of Elijah. |
| Flash Fiction |
Philo has lost his job, his dog and all human comfort. A vision appears, promising answers: Charles C. Cole, Philo Returns Home. |
| Poetry |
David Barber, Madame Laplace Looks Back New contributor Catherine Coundjeris, How the Golden Goose Came To Be |
| Short Poetry |
Alexander Etheridge, Find the Earth |
| Memoir |
Harrison recounts his Santeria days with Jimmy Toussaint in Mexico. Harrison Kim, A Cult of Two Chapter 1: Mexico City, November 1976 Chapter 2: In the Hotel Ontario Chapter 3: The Phone Booth Incident |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes Catherine Coundjeris and Anthony David Vernon. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 934 observes that the cosmic dining room is upstairs, in the macrocosm, while the kitchen is Downstairs, in the Microcosm. |
| 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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