The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 1090
| Novella | Katharyn ponders the nature and portent of her Uncle’s rise to the status of the Nation’s Guide. At the same time, she strives to resolve his popular glory with the self-abasement that he begs her to help him perform. Amita Basu, Mirror, part 4a; part 4b |
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| Short Stories |
Two friendly dogs cavort peacefully in a fog-shrouded park filled with conflict.
Jeffrey Greene, The Dog Park New contributor C. E. Powell sends a professor of quantum physics on a journey of which the perception and reality might be subject to The Copenhagen Interpretation, part 1; part 2; conclusion. When a tyrant’s ego forces performances of Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece to be turned upside down, the results can become very scary. Matias Travieso-Diaz, A Restaging of Nutcracker |
| Flash Fiction |
Along the Mississippi, in the Deep South in 1935, ripe tomatoes are not only a delicacy, they can be sustenance for hungry field workers. They may even cause people to confuse life with death and life again. Gary Clifton, Jes’ Don’t Eat All Them ’Maters |
| Short Poetry |
Robin Helweg-Larsen, An Observation |
| Essay | New contributor Todd Sullivan examines the status of supernatural predators in The Werewolf Conundrum. |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes C. E. Powell and Todd Sullivan. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 1090 considers the basis of Idealism: Esse est percipi and asks who’s doing the perceiving and what the perception means. |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, The Beasts Within Channie Greenberg, Amid Aliens 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:
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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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