Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes...

Rod Raglin

Rod lives in Vancouver and works as a journalist and photographer publishing an online community newspaper.. He has written more than a dozen novels as well as two plays and a collection of short sotries. Rod’s short fiction has been aired on CBC radio.

“Cryptic Messages” is an unusual story in that the main character never appears in person and is not even identified. But we’re not really surprised, because that character is a guardian angel.

The angel sends messages to Stanley Ernest Blunt, a bookkeeper whose wages go mostly toward maintaining his mother in a home for the aged. The angel’s messages are polite in a manner of speaking: they don’t order Stanley to do or not do anything; they simply remind him with increasing insistence of meetings — of which he has no knowledge — at precise times and places. The reasons for the strange messages become clearly evident only after the fact, though clues are visible beforehand. A moral of the story might be that one disregards premonitions at one’s own risk.

Rod Raglin’s bio sketch can be found here.

Welcome to Bewildering Stories, Rod. We’re glad to have you with us!