The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 578
| Novel |
The Winter Ship is a legend, an old tale. For those who rule over tide and time, who can say this ship does not sail every year? Sarah Ann Watts, Winter Ship |
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| Novella |
A dysmorphic Lucky Lavaggio travels ahead in time on the Equinox, using her scrying mirror to foresee her future as an opera singer and jilted lover. Meanwhile, a male Lucky Lavaggio battles the void. Tantra Bensko, Equinox Mirror |
| Short Stories |
An elderly eminent scientist chooses exactly the wrong time and place to succumb to seduction: Mike Florian, An Illicit Incident at the Imperial. A long-suffering mother of obstreperous children has a seatmate from Hell on an airplane trip: Channie Greenberg, Unlike Her Children. Beware reality that becomes art and vice-versa: O. D. Hegre, Immersion Art. A mocking voice adds insult to the injury of indoor rain: Jeremy Szal, The Rainmaker. |
| Flash Fiction |
Can any amount of retribution be enough? Charles C. Cole, Life, Interrupted. |
| Poetry |
Michael Amitin, Big Brown Chuckle Bites New contributor Alyssa D. Ross, A Wife Named White |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes Alyssa D. Ross. |
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| Discussion | Bewildering Stories sees that Wherever There’s Money... |
| Challenge | Challenge 578 espies danger in Trawling. |
| The Art Gallery |
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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