The Readers’ Guide

What’s in Issue 410

Drama	Jocelyn saves Wynfield from the gallows, but now Barclay wants to hire him as a hit man: Marina J. Neary, Hugo in London, scene 11; scene 12.
Novella	Nadezhda makes contact with other captives and together they plan to escape from their spaceship prison: Kir Bulychev, Half a Life, chapter 4, part 3; part 4.
Short Stories	Sometimes dreams do come true, given the right person, place and time: James C. G. Shirk, To Dream, part 1; part 2; conclusion. Life is far from dull in things both small and large for two young brothers living in the countryside of southern Florida: Ron Van Sweringen, Life Under an Orange Tree. New contributor Catherine B. Walder depicts life in a girls’ school, where the girls sometimes appear and disappear as unaccountably as cats: Cat Season, part 1; conclusion.
Flash Fiction	A mismatching of young lovers leaves one of them broken and the other twisted with megalomania and resentment: Channie Greenberg, The Process of Becoming a Noncorporeal Entity.
Poetry	New contributor Max Keanu, Whiss... chang! John Stocks, Birtwisles’ Pies

Departments

Welcome	*Bewildering Stories* welcomes Max Keanu and Catherine B. Walder
The Reading Room	Danielle L. Parker reviews Tom Zoellner, Uranium.
The Art Gallery	Richard Ong, Love Letter NASA: Picture of the Day Earth Observatory Picture of the Day Our Earth as Art *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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