What’s in Issue 365
| Serials |
The apocalypse attending Mother Saulcerite’s elevation to the ‘Mopacy’ ends with a question from Carolus Brainflower, one that is probably unanswerable: Bertil Falk, Apocalypse for a Dissociated Creator Harley Pigeon learns what really happened in an odd and sinister love triangle, and he realizes what his tomato dream really means: Rob Hunter, Cherokee Purple, part 5; part 6; part 7; part 8; conclusion |
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| Short Stories |
If you can achieve great things in fifty years, what could you do in ten times as many, given the talent and motivation? Lou Antonelli, Twilight on the Finger Lakes, part 1; conclusion. New contributors Walther & Antonio Bellomi depict a spectral family of ancient nobility gathering at Christmastime to exchange news and look askance at one of their members’ becoming a... plumber! But what do these nobles know? They’re just ghosts, after all: An Incredible Christmas Story — Un’incredibile storia di Natale. New contributor Albert J. Manachino tells a Santa Claus story from hell: The Game of Burke and Hare. Clarise Samuels gives an entirely new meaning to the old question ‘Are you a man or a mouse?’ in The Edict of Vilnius. |
| Flash Fiction |
Charles Dickens has a new friend: Ron Van Sweringen, A Warm Heart. Young Beth-Ann is very attached to her old home and will go literally to any lengths to avoid moving to far Toronto: Joanna M. Weston, The Wreath. |
| Poetry |
Anna Ruiz, Two Movements, One Design John Stocks, Ethie McLean |
| Short Poetry |
Marina J. Neary, Midwinter Elegy |
| Essay | Bertil Falk, John Bampfylde, the Archetypal Mad Poet |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes Antonio Bellomi and Albert J. Manachino. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 365 discovers a Touching Semblance. |
| The Reading Room |
Rachel V. Olivier, The Holly and the Ivan, excerpt |
| The Art Gallery |
A randomly rotating selection of Bewildering Stories’ art NASA: Picture of the Day Earth Observatory Picture of the Day |
Bewildering Stories News
Happy Holidays! This is the last regular issue of 2009. The next two weeks will bring you the Fourth Quarterly Review and the Annual Review. We’ll resume regular publication with issue 366 on January 4, 2010. E-mail slows down appreciably at this time of year; contributors please be patient.
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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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