Issue 439

Novel	Mary B. McArdle, Give Them Wine A Disparity of Language, chapter 13
Novella	Mark Kertzman, The Mississippi Company, chapter 13; chapter 14; chapter 15; chapter 16
Serial	Hongping Liu, The King of the Forest Part I: Ball, Bell and Bole
Short Stories	Garrett Calcaterra, Take It Easy Michael S. Collins, The Watcher Bertil Falk, A Touch of Something Else Walter Giersbach, Fish Stories and the Mermaid
Flash Fiction	Mike Florian, Adam’s Family
Poetry	Rebecca Lu Kiernan, Identity
Essay	Shayne Holzman, A Word Problem

Welcome	Bewildering Stories welcomes... Garrett Calcaterra and Mike Florian
The Critics’ Corner	Don Webb, When East Isn’t East
Challenge	Challenge 439: The Mandrill’s Hand
The Art Gallery	Üzeyir Lokman Çaycı, Points South NASA: Picture of the Day Earth Observatory Picture of the Day Previous NASA photos Our Earth as Art Sky and Telescope, This Week’s Sky at a Glance