The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 955
| Novel |
Mrs. Jones coerces Jim-Jam to return to hat-making in order to relieve her daughter’s emotional instability. A mysterious petitioner wants to hire Jim-Jam to write copy about herbal remedies and provide laboratory substantiation of the remedies' efficacy. Lima upgrades her attacks on Jim-Jam and worries about her mother's problem-ridden love life. Mom O'Neily leads a defense for Jim-Jam against mounting legal attacks. Channie Greenberg, The Ill-Advised Adventures of Jim-Jam O’Neily
Chapter 15: Mindless Rhetorical Onslaughts
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| Serial | New contributor Alcuin Fromm introduces Nithan Raille, captain of an interplanetary ore carrier. The ship’s dangerous cargo will raise a question: what does it mean To Die Like a Man? part 1; part 2. |
| Short Stories |
New contributor Ben Coppin introduces graffiti artist William Heritage, who must defend his work in The Office for Unjust Obstruction. Artificial people have evolved over the centuries in literature. What if a real one could fulfill a researcher’s every wish? L. L. Richardson, Noetic Androids Among Us. |
| Flash Fiction |
Phoebe has read enough about psychology to realize that her boyfriend Eddie is crazy: Shauna Checkley, The Boy Just Can’t Help Himself. |
| Poetry | Richard Ong, Shadow Dance |
| Essay | New contributor David Armstrong shows why one can’t physically train to practice an art in On Becoming a Writer. |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes David Armstrong, Ben Coppin and Alcuin Fromm. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 955 frowns upon Rolling Coal. |
| The Art Gallery |
Channie Greenberg, Borderlines 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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