The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 1000
| Discussion | Bewildering Stories recalls its early years in celebrating the 1,000th regular issue with Michael E. Lloyd, Gary Inbinder and Don Webb. |
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| Novels |
Detective Joe Avery finds business short with the faery folk one day, but a visit from Ombard. who is trying to retrieve a lost totem pole, leads to a meeting with Deirdre, an artist and curator of folk art. Charles C. Cole, Joe Avery
Chapter 15: Joe Avery Gets an Old World Visitor
Lawyer Williams takes Eugenia Merwin to a secret shoreline cove of his to discuss important maps and other subjects. Meanwhile, Deputy Sheriff Riley finds a helpful witness to Gil Doyle’s last journey. Gary Inbinder, Phantom Point |
| Novella |
Devon Quindes is young, but he is determined to stand his ground as a Numan when Marlow questions him. The results yield important information, but what will prove that an infiltrator corrupted the Red Daggers’ protest? Brian Yapko, San Damien and the Red Daggers
Chapter 6: Devon Quindes
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| Short Stories |
New contributor James Rogers depicts a family riven by child abuse, where the youngest sibling finds safety In Her Brother’s Arms, part 1;
conclusion. New contributor Miriam Trujillo helps a man in a small town recollect what his life has meant to others when he is invited to A Dinner of the Hours, part 1; conclusion. |
| Flash Fiction |
New contributor Danielle Woodgate depicts a grade-school teacher who knows that her pupils enjoy games and need the occasional school fire drill. But another kind of drill is required in American schools, and it is no less horrific even when it is disguised as Hide and Seek. |
| Poetry | Ron Sanders, And Weariness Is My Name |
| Short Poetry |
Kevin Broccoli, Apple & Pepper |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes James Rogers, Miriam Trujillo and Danielle Woodgate. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 1000 finds good art at the Top of the Pole. |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Dreaming Sphinx Channie Greenberg, Watermelon 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Randomly selected Bewildering motto: Any story based on current events is out of date before it’s written.
Randomly selected classic rejection notice: We have read your manuscript with boundless delight. If we publish your paper, it would be impossible for us to publish any work of lower standard. And as it is unthinkable that in the next thousand years we shall see its equal, we are, to our regret, compelled to return your divine composition and beg you a thousand times to overlook our shortsightedness and timidity. — (from a Chinese economics journal)
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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