The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 530
| News |
The Second Quarterly Review: This is the last regular issue of the second quarter of 2013. Next week we’ll bring you the Editors’ Choices from issues 519-530. Extension: In view of the downtime incurred during website registration renewal, issue 530 will remain on line till Monday afternoon, June 24th. |
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| Serial | The horror fantasies may have been real, and the Oracles are. But the narrator has to wonder how real he is: George S. Karagiannis, Ghost Profiler, part 6; conclusion. |
| Short Stories |
New contributor Phil Davies introduces Mary, a young girl who has to decide which are scarier: the monsters in the attic or the people in her home: The Arianthids, part 1; conclusion. In a post-apocalypse world, Isaac decides history is futile. Archeologists from the future may think otherwise: Noel Denvir, Testament. Marooned in a city or on an alien planet, one stranded being may be able to help another: Varya Kartishai, No Place Like Home, part 1; conclusion. Even among immigrants and outcasts, love has a way of going around and coming around: Leonard Schlenz, You Crack Me Up, part 1; conclusion. |
| Flash Fiction |
Superstition may sometimes be a projection of a guilty conscience: Julie Wornan, Monsieur Deux. |
| Poetry | New contributor Tim Laffey, At X Marks the Spot |
| Short Poetry |
Cristina-Monica Moldoveanu, Lily Stalk |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes Phil Davies and Tim Laffey. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 530 sentimentalizes that there’s No Place Like Love. |
| Editorial | Bugs in the kitchen, bugs in the bed, bugs on the Internet, messin’ with your head: Don Webb, Big Beaver Is Watching You. |
| The Art Gallery |
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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