The Readers’ Guide

What’s in Issue 394

Novel	Sleepy Donna’s drawn-out exposure to the artistic spirits of Paris has primed her for an extraordinary experience: Michael E. Lloyd, Donna’s Men Book I: Windmills Everywhere Chapter 6: Outsider Soup, part 1; part 2; part 3
Novellas	Sometimes a genie is needed not only to fulfill a wish but to ensure — somehow — that the wish is the right one: Oonah V. Joslin, A Genie in a Jam Chapter 6: Gooseberry Both Skippy and Celia decide their destiny is not in Bartertown. How to escape? Intrepid Celia connives their way into the air: Frederick D. Rustam, Skippy’s World Part 6: Bartertown
Short Stories	Captain Blunt trysts with the remarkable Chronosian, Estee, in Shallalu, the city that will have never been: Danielle L. Parker, Shallalu, part 1; part 2, part 3, conclusion. ‘What’s too painful to remember we choose to forget...’ But what if someone else chooses what you forget? Robert H. Prestridge, Selective Memory.
Flash Fiction	Michael D. Brooks shows how behavioral profiling can really complicate a Driving Lesson. Morgan’s guardian angel works hard to spare the young girl glue — and prudence: Walter Giersbach, Angel in My Coffee Cup.
Poetry	Anna Ruiz, To Capture Blue
Short Poetry	John Grey, What It Was Like for Ghosts

Departments

Challenge	Challenge 394 says things are Coming Unstuck.
Editorial	Danielle L. Parker and Don Webb, The Spirit and Practice of Critiques
The Art Gallery	A randomly rotating selection of Bewildering Stories’ art NASA: Picture of the Day Earth Observatory Picture of the Day Our Earth as Art

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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