The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 1093
| Serial | Can a dangerous flirtation bring release from feelings of captivity? Jasmyn and Reid find the peace they need, each in their own way. Shauna Checkley, Sourdough, part 3; conclusion |
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| Short Stories |
A man with memory problems finds therapy in recounting events of his youth that seem to explain why Eloise, his high-school girlfriend, suddenly ran away with other family members.
Peter Ninnes, Finding Eloise, part 1; conclusion New contributor Gabriel Peña pictures a story of spousal abuse that might lead to a tragic outcome but for the intervention of a well-known figure in Mexican folklore: Whispered Cries. New contributor Marcel Schwob demonstrates the adventuresome spirit of historical fiction in accounts of Two Famous Pirates.
—translator’s commentary by Michael Wooff
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| Flash Fiction |
Corey is delighted when his supervisor asks him to manage the internship of a new company employee, Calendula. But some other employees look at them strangely. Because of their racial difference? No, nothing so ridiculously trivial as that!
Charles C. Cole, The Truth About Floral Folk Little Alice must hide in fear when she is at home alone in wartime and investigators come searching for members of the Underground. Odin H. Halvorson, Will the Flashlights Pause? |
| Poetry |
New contributor Jason Horsler, The Pressed Man Sultana Raza, Serene Nostalgia |
| Short Poetry |
Brenda Mox, Luminous Presence |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes Gabriel Peña |
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| Challenge | Challenge 1093 knows that under the government of a dictatorship, we — the people — will be treated as Whatever They Say we are. |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, The Melted Candy Land Channie Greenberg, Tenacious 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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