The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 1110
| Short Stories |
New contributor Philip Graubart introduces Nathan, who is perplexed when his grandfather suddenly changes his story about escaping the Holocaust in Hungary. Was a very young girl an angel sent to rescue the family? Or was she a treacherous collaborator? If neither, then what? The form stories take often depends on who‘s telling them. The Righteous Gentile, part 1; part 2; conclusion New contributor Matthew Gregory gives Jason everything a science fiction devotee could have ever wished for: aliens from outer space! Well, almost everything and something else, besides. The Night the World Changed. part 1; part 2; conclusion New contributor Adam Williams dramatizes some near-term consequences of uncontrolled human genetic experimentation. One of them is the emergence of The Visionary, part 1; part 2; conclusion. |
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| Flash Fiction |
Security video camera footage shows a little boy who wasn‘t there. How shall Detective McCoy report that? Gary Clifton, A Silent Whisper |
| Short Poetry |
Charles C. Cole, Silent Witness |
| Memoir |
As the Silent and Boomer generations gradually go extinct, their members often find the process gives them cause for regret. Barbara Krasner, I Didn’t Know |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes Philip Graubart and Adam Williams |
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| Challenge | Challenge 1110 finds that solving crosswords can be fun, but don’t engage in Cross Words. |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Power Grid Channie Greenberg, Productive 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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