The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 1136
| Short Stories |
New contributor Aritra Basak depicts a city cryptically fluent in transactions where a man tries to repay a debt that refuses to behave like money: Notes by Altitude. On the planet Loric, a pioneer survey team immediately senses that the fairly desolate world imparts strange feelings of hidden potential. R. C. Capasso, What Grows Between Worlds, part 1; conclusion An 18-year old who is in the U.S. Army’s basic training in 1966 undertakes a daring mission to have his girlfriend come from Louisville for a date in St. Louis. Charles Merkel, An Odyssey in Basic Training, part 1; conclusion Marigold is home from university for the summer and has a job at the front desk of her aunt’s small motel. One Friday evening at work, Marigold enjoys the company of another student, Furman. Douglas Young, The Wisteria Falls Hideaway Inn |
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| Flash Fiction |
Rural shopkeeper Harvey C. Sledge allows living space to an inadvertent family whose teenage son he exploits as a kind of slave. Sledge also makes drunken boasts to the wrong man. Gary Clifton, Food Stamps and Moonshine Whiskey |
| Poetry | Bill Bowler, I Woke Up in Dreamland |
| Short Poetry |
Channie Greenberg, Tenebrific Sultana Raza, Obliterate Nocturnal Hours |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes Aritra Basak. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 1136 cites a question that both poets and prose authors sometimes consider: What Do Rêves Reveal? |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Eerie Moon John D. Connelley, True Comfort Alison McBain, Toddler Times, 1136 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
Readers’ reactions are always welcome.
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