The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 1036
| Novel |
Max discovers who killed Peggy Rooney. Gary Inbinder, The Girl on the Rush Street Bridge |
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| Short Stories |
Dodi is a dutiful daughter, but she and her mother have never communicated well. Now that her mother is in a nursing home, Dodi comes to visit and witnesses a kind of revelation.
Shauna Checkley, The Almost Visit New contributor Sarah Das Gupta depicts a crisis in tensions between a colonial power and its subservient neighbor. A refugee is given a lot of virtual currency in the form of Twelve Beans. When Danny was in high school, he lost his parents under mysterious circumstances, and then he disappeared. Years later, his high-school friend has suspicions and wants to buy Danny’s old home, now that it’s up for sale. What might be hidden in the basement? Howard E. Vogl, Where’s Danny? |
| Flash Fiction |
Sallymae, a teenager, faces overwhelming challenges and responsibilities in her poverty-stricken mountain home. Not only do local lechers abound, a mortgage foreclosure looms. But Sallymae knows how to fend for herself and seize an opportunity when she’s in the right place at the right time. Gary Clifton, Papa Ain’t Come Home Much |
| Poetry | Ralph S. Souders, Upon the Windward Sea |
| Short Poetry |
Edward Ahern, Dirty-Handed Graspings |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes Sarah Das Gupta. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 1036 feels that there is a difference between Washing Up and Out. |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Midnight Waltz Channie Greenberg, Skips Ron Sanders, A Family Affair 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
Readers’ reactions are always welcome.
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