The Readers’ Guide

What’s in Issue 480

Novel	Arthur’s time and attention are already torn between re-acclimatising, starting his search for Emilie, holding the Inspector at bay, and keeping Pureza satisfied with the story of his own childhood ... and Emilie’s. Michael E. Lloyd, Missing Emilie Book II: Reparations Chapter 2: Balancing Act, part 1; part 2
Serial	Kyto comes to a final realization of the meaning of the titanic struggle he has witnessed: Roland Allnach, Conquest’s End, conclusion
Short Stories	New contributor Josie Gowler shows how post-industrial decay feels as well as looks: Rotted Iron. New contributor Arthur Pinte receives a very prompt acknowledgement of a submission to an e-zine. In fact it’s unbelievably prompt: Time Lapse. New contributor James Vachowski tells a joke on the cynical misuse of language in contemporary politics. But is it a joke or ‘a fire bell in the night’? The Shareholders’ Meeting.
Flash Fiction	A horse and rider bring warning: LaVerne Zocco, The Champion I Gave a Rose.
Poetry	Afzal Moolla, Ramblin’ Bob Dylan Blues
Short Poetry	Bertil Falk, What a Slap Can Do
Memoir	What a job, working with a tone-deaf, color-blind pyromaniac: Ásgrímur Hartmannsson, My Co-Worker Edwin.

Departments

Welcome	Bewildering Stories welcomes Denis Bell, Josie Gowler, and James Vachowski.
Interview	Bewildering Stories interviews Clarise Samuels.
The Critics’ Corner	Don Webb reveals The Secrets of “And”.
Challenge	Challenge 479 Response: “No Secrets Now” Challenge 480: I Hear That Train A-Comin’
The Art Gallery	A randomly rotating selection of Bewildering Stories’ art NASA: Picture of the Day Previous NASA photos 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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