Issue 685

Novel	Bill Kowaleski, Living Standards Prologue Chapter 1: An Offer She Could Not Refuse
Serial	Bill Prindle, Ghost Writers, part 3; part 4
Short Stories	Louis Brierley, The Midnight Man Julianne Carew, Mirrors John Cooper Hamilton, Egg Basket Roger PItcher, The Splon Is a Lonely Hunter
Flash Fiction	Betsy Isbell, Heave(n) for Don(e) Pedro
Short Poetry	Shola Balogun, The Rose on the Cross Lana Bella, She Is Twice Touched and Once Recoiled
Memorial Reissue	Susan A. Hagedorn, Immortality

Welcome	Bewildering Stories welcomes Louis Brierley, Julianne Carew, John C. Hamilton, and Betsy Isbell
Challenge	Challenge 685: (Paren)thesis and Antithesis
Letters	Cheryl W. Ruggiero, Remembering Susan Hagedorn
The Reading Room	Edward Ahern, Capricious Visions excerpt
The Art Gallery	Denny Marshall, Ceremony A randomly rotating selection of Bewildering Stories’ art 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