The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 1065
| Novel |
Max has trysted with beautiful, seductive Cora, who sends him on a mission to ransom stolen artwork at squalid and deadly Bubbly Creek. Max is escorted to a meeting with the “star” of the rescued items, who shows him what they really are and what their true cost has been. Gary Inbinder, Chicago Max
Chapter 15: Bubbly Creek, part 1;
part 2
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| Short Stories |
If a newborn child can’t be provided for, don’t look for adoptive parents, assign it to a man as his punishment for being single and childless.
Robert Earle, Life Services New contributor Allegra Gulino introduces two lonely individuals and a store that deals in marine and freshwater wildlife as domestic pets. But the store is haunted bigtime; the customers will need to muster spectacular ingenuity to escape Aquasphere. Molly comes to meet her fiancé, Jeb, at his town and farm. She finds him enthralling, but his plans for the future appall her, and she must weigh in the balance what a disgruntled voter like herself will settle for. James Hanna, Known by Its Fruit, part 1; part 2; conclusion A space-alien tourist can enjoy riotous fun on Earth provided it selects the right human as its temporary vehicle and habitation. Robert Walton, Call Me Charles |
| Flash Fiction |
A lonely island provides a haven for a sailor lost at sea. And that’s where the adventure begins. Charles C. Cole, The Island and the Sailor |
| Poetry | David Barber, Life and Death Amongst the Ursh |
| Short Poetry |
Shauna Checkley, Rink Burger |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes Allegra Gulino. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 1065 sees a future in which cities are built for automobiles rather than people. Communities are carved up and stifled. Family incomes are stretched beyond the breaking point to earn enough for shelter and transportation, and families, deprived of communities, are themselves gradually replaced by another, utterly authoritarian household: the prison. Consensus cannot form, and political discourse degenerates into sectarian hostility. Democracy itself can no longer legitimize government: those who have the means become rulers, and the professions, corrupted, become their servants. Centuries later, starving peasants scrabble for roots in the shadow of ruins. |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Haunted Black Creek Channie Greenberg, White Fire Ron Sanders, Open House 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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