The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 1114
| Short Stories |
New contributor Daniel P. Douglas satirizes a gunman’s misconstruing mathematics and physics as completely reliable predictors of human actions in a Mathematical Showdown. Time-travel inevitably involves the “grandfather paradox,” especially when such travelers want to improve or even save parts of their family history. But is it okay if they do so by accident? Silvia Hines, She’s My Cousin, part 1; conclusion New contributor Morgan Kohler introduces a controller whose work a remote airfield’s control tower seems safely uneventful until conditions combine to bring danger home to him. Fire Escape. part 1; conclusion New contributor Dan Rodriguez brings together a writing teacher and a strangely persistent student in a parallel universe version of New York City. Professor Strike, part 1; conclusion |
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| Flash Fiction |
New contributor David Waters joins three condors at a news conference in which they are forced to demonstrate their sometimes direct cleverness to a human audience. Bird Brains. |
| Poetry | New contributor Jon Hogland, Strange Incense |
| Short Poetry |
Bill Bowler, For Your Eyes Only Robin Helweg-Larsen, When AI Rules |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes Daniel P. Douglas, Jon Hogland, Morgan Kohler, Dan Rodriguez and David Waters. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 1114 grants that stories need to name the places where they unfold, but readers may occasionally find it Bewildering to Place the Names. |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Scarab in Amber Channie Greenberg, An Orbit of Chairs Alison McBain, Toddler Times, 1114 John D. Connelley, Things That Go Bump in the Night 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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