The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 678
| Serial | Josh Kellerman shows he is personally resourceful as well as enterprising and idealistic. Meanwhile, Mr. Lawson has to choose between a sure thing now or a good thing in the long term: Deborah Rochford, Two Proposals, part 5; conclusion. |
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| Short Stories |
Stephen Allan is a spellbinding orator. Just be careful not to fall under the wrong spell:
Edward Ahern, Listen to the Deaf Man Sing, part 1; conclusion. A melting glacier has exposed an alien aircraft on a mountainside. How can an idealistic scientist reconcile her professional integrity with what she learns from the discovery? Bill Kowaleski, Intelligent Designers, part 1; conclusion. New contributor Andy Tu shows how sneaking out at night for some innocent fun can go very wrong if a girl loses her temper: Point of No Return. |
| Flash Fiction |
Mr. and Mrs. Roy appear to be normal next-door neighbors. You wouldn’t believe how much they aren’t: Charles C. Cole, The Mechanical Engineer. |
| Poetry | Douglas Young, A Surprise Visitor |
| Short Poetry |
Shola Balogun, Mandela James R. Rudolph, Ghosting Me |
| Essay | Ada Fetters explores Different Spaces: The Fluidity of World and Form in Children’s Literature. |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes Andy Tu. |
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| The Critics’ Corner |
Bewildering Stories discusses Authors and Characters. |
| Challenge |
Challenge 678 asks Is Rusty the New Orange? Special Challenge 678 takes Everything Literally. |
| The Reading Room |
Alison McBain reviews Dana Bate, Too Many Cooks. |
| The Art Gallery |
Denny Marshall, Red Clouds of Cliff Island Richard Ong, Fifth Dimension 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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