The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 1017
| Novels |
Satet and Sarah enjoy some Kolchoan Blue and each other’s company as they make the long journey to the Sages’ College, in Latidium. Patrick Honovich, The Elusive Taste of Kolchoan Blue
Chapter 9: The True Cost of a Good Coach West, part 1;
conclusion
It’s 1910, and private detective Max Niemand has come home to Chicago from Phantom Point. The kind of mystery and danger he encountered in California seems to pursue him. Gary Inbinder, The Girl on the Rush Street Bridge
Chapter 1: On the Bridge, at Night
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| Short Stories |
New contributor Clifford Piel has a word of caution about people who would tell you How to Live a Happy Life.
part 1;
part 2;
conclusion.
New contributor Amanda Zila has a word of caution about offers to sell you a successful career for Only Ten Toes, part 1; part 2; conclusion. |
| Flash Fiction |
Money is very scarce in Tennessee in 1908. A young bare-knuckle fighter is a little too ready to take risks:
Gary Clifton, Calvin and the Kid This guy never had a crush on a girl, back in school? Does that put in doubt his capacity to love? Charles C. Cole, My First Cerberus |
| Short Poetry |
Edward Ahern, Mind Swirls |
Review Classic Reissue |
Some things have changed in the last 32 centuries; other things, not so much. Eric H. Cline, 1177 B.C. The Year Civilization Collapsed |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes Clifford Piel and Amanda Zila. |
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| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Crystal Forest Channie Greenberg, Tentacles Ron Sanders, To a Finer World 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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