The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 1117
| Serial | Semi-retired Art professor Rupert Irwin is home again, learning the ways and value of amateur painting. A new portrait model harkens back to old times. Marina J. Neary, People of Pleasure, part 4; conclusion |
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| Short Stories |
New contributor Andreas Britz introduces Ned, who is angry at his next-door neighbors for shooting a bear come to prowl in their yard. Ned has a lot to learn about more than bears.
Bearskin, part 1; part 2; conclusion New contributor Domonique D. Krentz shows how Pier only appears to act irrationally after a very Hot Toot, part 1; part 2; conclusion. It’s midnight on Mercury, next to the Sun. An interplanetary terraforming agent is there, desperately seeking uninhabited worlds for human colonists. He had better treat with caution — even reverence — what he finds there. Floyd Largent, Midnight in the Garden What’s a father to do while observing the rambunctions of his gestating offspring? L. S. Popovich, After Eggs |
| Flash Fiction |
A lonely father’s only daughter is going out to socialize with friends. But her father finds he has much to be thankful for. Charles C. Cole, A Loud Silence |
| Short Poetry |
Robin Helweg-Larsen, Mirror Shades |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes Andreas Britz and Domonique D. Krentz. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 1117 finds that things that seem Outlandish may simply be outerspaceish. |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, The Knox Presbyterian Church Channie Greenberg, Productive John Eric Ellison, Pirates Attack John D. Connelley, Nature Squatters 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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