The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 1037
| News | This is the last regular issue of the northern winter or southern summer, according to your hemisphere. Next week, we’ll bring you the Editors’ Choices in the First Quarterly Review of 2024. Regular publication is scheduled to resume with issue 1038 on April 1st. |
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| Novel |
Max Niemand benefits from the crucial help of both close friends and friends in dark places to finish off the long list of bad actors involved directly or indirectly in Peggy Rooney’s demise. Gary Inbinder, The Girl on the Rush Street Bridge
Chapter 27: The Lady of the Lake, part 1;
part 2
Chapter 28: Hellfire Chapter 29: Ashore, in Daylight, conclusion |
| Short Stories |
New contributor Mark Mitchell enjoins everyone to take a good look around lest they be greeted with a Welcome to Dearth, part 1;
conclusion. New contributor Sam Ruleman depicts a childhood fantasy that provides a desperately needed escape from an outdoor reality: Sugarbomb, part 1; conclusion. In some places, school students are grouped according to “ability,” and the “fast track” students are rewarded with university placement and social prestige. Zhang Yi-ting discovers that she is in a “slow” track because educational methods and policy have put her there arbitrarily. Huina Zheng, Perils of the Slow Track |
| Flash Fiction |
A son provides an example for his father in arriving at a diplomatic decision about family visits. Charles C. Cole, Like Father, Like Son |
| Short Poetry |
Edward Ahern, Storytelling Michael Wooff, M. C. Escher’s Day and Night |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes Mark Mitchell and Sam Ruleman. |
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| Challenge |
Challenge 1037 harkens back to an old algebra teacher’s advice: there are No Irregular Verbs in Math. |
| Excerpt | William Kitcher, Farewell and Goodbye, My Maltese Sleep |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Poison Mist Channie Greenberg, Squared Ron Sanders, Ache 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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