The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 1020
| Novel |
Max is out looking for a missing witness to a murder. He is surprised to find that someone is looking for him. Gary Inbinder, The Girl on the Rush Street Bridge |
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| Novella |
Lemm meets a suspect. Meanwhile, Lemm and his friend are plotting ways to find out what is really going on aboard the Huntress. Alcuin Fromm, Trust Me, part 3 |
| Short Stories |
New contributor Anayancy Estacio shows how ostensibly friendly interactions can go wrong in the wrong hands: Cuteness Aggression. New contributor Anna Villegas portrays a couple recalling good times while managing to live in a post-apocalyptic world: When We Were Civil, part 1; part 2; conclusion.
When I find myself in times of trouble,
More than 50 years later, the refrain of Paul McCartney’s and John Lennon’s song of 1970 is echoed from the other side of the world, showing what “wisdom” can mean: Huina Zheng, Just Let It Be
Mother Mary comes to me, Speaking words of widsom: “Let it be.” |
| Flash Fiction |
How does one put up with ostentatious piety? Befriend the diety, but in private:
Charles C. Cole, Althea’s Other Man There may come a time when houseboats prove very practical: Jeffrey Greene, A Year of Rain |
| Poetry | New contributor Bobby Cranestone, The Meadow Found Anew |
| Short Poetry |
Jerry Hogan, Fait accompli |
Memoir |
New contributor Vern Fein recalls a time when he and some friends were Easy Riders. |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes Bobby Cranestone, Anayancy Estacio, Vern Fein, Anna Villegas. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 1020 tales a different philosophical approach with Being and Somethingness. |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, The Merlin Tree Channie Greenberg, The Reach Ron Sanders, Vanishing Point 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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