The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 1001
| News | This is the last regular issue of the second quarter, spring or fall according to your hemisphere. Next week, we will bring you the Editors’ Choices from issues 990 through 1001 in the Second Quarterly Review. |
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| Novels |
What can Joe do with a grouchy apartment tenant who thinks he’s two different people? Charles C. Cole, Joe Avery
Chapter 16: Joe Avery and the Mysterious Tenant
Max, Eve, the marshal and his deputies pursue the track of Gil Doyle. Max and Eve set their sights on the future of their respective missions. Gary Inbinder, Phantom Point
Chapter 23: Max and Eve, part 1; part 2
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| Novella |
Adrian Marlow approves of young Devon Quindes’ being spared execution along with the other Red Daggers. Absalom Pound sees the clemency as something far worse than a mere difference of opinion; he seems to fear it. Brian Yapko, San Damien and the Red Daggers
Chapter 7: Crime and Punishment
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| Short Stories |
Two co-workers meet coincidentally at a secluded place for a coffee break. They agree on what they don’t want to talk about, but one of them might have a good idea:
Shauna Checkley, A New Friend at the Office. New contributor Livia E. De Souza unveils what strange things one might discover when exploring An Unforeseen Inheritance, part 1; part 2, conclusion. Sometimes a questioner and a questionee are remarkably ill-suited for one another: Mitchell Waldman, A Karmic Questioning. |
| Flash Fiction |
M.D. Smith IV pictures how the new owner of an old plantation house might be regaled with stories told by its Wall Ghosts. |
| Poetry | New contributor Ralph S. Souders, The Lonely Young Lady |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes Livia E. De Souza and Ralph S. Souders. |
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| Challenge |
Challenge 1000 Response: The Scent of Peppers Challenge 1001 cautions you not to get lost in Dark Alleys. |
| The Art Gallery |
Ron Sanders, Crossroads 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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