The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 1155
| News |
Issue 1156 is nearly ready. Proofreading needs to be recorded and the Readers’ Guide completed. Hopefully this can be done in the next day or two. Issue 1156 should have the customary week’s “headline” exposure. In any event, it will be followed by the Third Quarterly Review. Delays have occurred in past years at Bewildering Stories for various reasons. This time, the Managing Editor is being treated for an inflamed nerve juncture at the neck and right shoulder. Let’s hope it continues to show favourable progress. If your web browser gets a ”404” message for issue 1156, try this link: |
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| Short Stories |
Magnolia could claim merely to have discovered that her husband had drowned in a bathtub or she could admit to having caused the apparent accident. The consequences are very different in each case for her and the Provincial investigator.
Charles C. Cole, Magnolia, in Two Parts Does the Sultan treat his wife as well as he treats his favorite horse or does he treat his horse as well as his wife? Does it matter? Matias Travieso-Diaz, The Loves of a Sultan When middle-school tutor Lilin is blamed unfairly, she can no longer affix her “professional smile.” Where can she find how to smile naturally? Huina Zheng, Lilin Seeks to Smile Again |
| Flash Fiction |
Youngsters have been fishing illegally off a rural bridge, and Officer Dunnigan has been pursuing them for many years. One day, an intruder complicates matters quite remarkably. Gary Clifton, A Bridge Too Near |
| Poetry |
New contributor Robert Leith-Rivers, Dance in the Forest and Desert New contributor Ishita Nigam, The River Rock L. S. Popovich, A Moonlight Feast, This Meadow |
| Short Poetry |
Jules, Earthrise |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes Robert Leith-Rivers and Ishita Nigam. |
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| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, The Faery Kingdom Channie Greenberg, Parallels john. D. Connelley, Coal Slaw Alison McBain, Toddler Times 1155 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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