The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 1154
| Short Stories |
New contributor Ly Ann introduces Kaia, a teenage girl who has promised her late mother to avoid violent intruders on their Pacific island. But what are the new visitors like? Daughter Unmoored, part 1; conclusion Deep in the Mayan jungles of Mexico, a hardy young tourist discovers why he belongs in the culture that celebrates Chaac, the Thunder God, and the beautiful dragonflies. Harrison Kim, The Dragonflies of Chaac, part 1; conclusion Readers are surely familiar with superheroes such as Superman, Batman, Captain Marvel, and the like. But what if that class of the work force becomes, shall we say, overcrowded? Floyd Largent, Superpowered on the Job |
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| Flash Fiction |
A sturdy inhabitant of northern forests can summon the trees themselves to their self-defense when wicked intruders come. Charles C. Cole, Mott Brinegar, Mountain Man |
| Poetry | Bill Bowler, Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man |
| Short Poetry |
Andrew Brenza, The Dying Place of Deer Gloria Watts, Memory in an Orchard |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes Ly Ann. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 1154 notes that short stories sometimes contain Hidden Stories. |
| The Reading Room |
Alison McBain reviews Benjamin Stevenson’s |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Organic Circuit Channie Greenberg, Discovery John D. Connelley, The Boxing Butterfly 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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