The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 1016
| Novel |
Setet is sent to negotiate with Ghita Cadzana, but a previous acquaintance, Sarah Bailick, is also a mysterious partner in the discussion. Patrick Honovich, The Elusive Taste of Kolchoan Blue
Chapter 8: The Mother of All Hangovers, part 1; part 2
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| Short Stories |
What can one do to thwart an abductor that is invincible? And how will the world react to its intermittent presence?
Jeffrey Greene, He Is Other, part 1;
conclusion New contributor James Nelli brings a helpful young lad to a prime fishing hole to assist with Benjamin’s Lures. Sometimes, while fishing, one can catch more than fish, such as a good idea. Douglas Young, Fishing for a Connection, part 1; conclusion |
| Flash Fiction |
A gentleman is afflicted by a tiny pest with an enormous personality, but it is still able to learn. It’s both small and large at the same time, as though a relative of Voltaire’s Micromégas. Charles C. Cole, The Conquering Flea |
| Poetry | David Barber, Songs the Jirt Sang |
| Short Poetry |
Edward Ahern, Our Daily Bread |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes James Nelli. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 1016 sings of New Songs. |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Cocktail Bomb Ron Sanders, The Deep 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Randomly selected Bewildering motto: Any story based on current events is out of date before it’s written.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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