The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 545
| Novel |
Ivory Burch has lost a leg after his escape from a prison camp in the Philippines and now must undergo several operations. How will he react when he wakes and sees that Henry Akita has been assigned to his case? Henry does not want to find out: Sherman Smith, Two Blind Men and a Fool |
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| Short Stories |
New contributor Neil Armstrong introduces Jacob, a lad who discovers that an ancient entity can give him super-powers just when he needs them most: The Golden Tears, part 1; conclusion. What’s the point of victory when there is no vanquished? Charles C. Cole, The Last Victory. An art historian and a musician are imprisoned underground by mysterious beings: Margaret Karmazin, Why You Haven’t Heard From Me, part 1; part 2; conclusion. |
| Flash Fiction |
Prometheus has served out his sentence; now he risks reoffending on another world, but for different reasons than the first time: Yuliya Klochan, World on Fire. |
| Drama | New contributor Rick Deitrick portrays a telephone conversation stripped of every shred of pretense and hypocrisy: The Cold Call. |
| Poetry | B. Z. Niditch, Moscow Never Sleeps |
| Short Poetry |
Jason C. Ford, A Path Into the Raging Water |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes Neil Armstrong and Rick Deitrick. |
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| Challenge |
Challenge 544 Response: A Structural Solution to a Punctuation Problem Challenge 545 reports the News from Under- and Overground. |
| The Reading Room |
Danielle L. Parker reviews D. Alexander Ward, After the Fire. |
| 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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