The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 1160
| Short Stories |
An ancient morality tale about the virtue of hospitality still has a place today, although in a radically different form.
George Aitch, Southern Hospitality A magician needs someone to guard his house while he’s away at a conference. But he knows that a house-sitter will find books of magic spells too tempting to resist. How can he make magic self-protective? Charles C. Cole, Magic’s Housekeeper In a society where the perception of reality is strictly controlled, lapses of control can have severe consequences. Landon L Gow, Protocol for the Unseen |
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| Flash Fiction |
Some people may need to cry in a first-class railway car. Those who don’t ought to keep the less fortunate in mind. Huina Zheng, Why Cry in First Class? |
| Poetry | Bill Bowler, Sitting Here in Space |
| Short Poetry |
Robert Witmer, Just Around the Corner |
Departments
| Challenge | Challenge 1160 finds that in more than one story it pays to remember the caution: Look Who’s Watching. |
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| The Reading Room |
Edward Ahern, “The Encounter” in The Poets of Black Rock Books, excerpt |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Monstrous Bog Channie Greenberg, Insertion John D. Connelley, Space Pyramids Robert Leith-Rivers, Indian Maidens 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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