The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 681
| Serials |
Sid, exhausted, tracks Deegan and Trina to their beach hideout. Norman exchanges a basketball for a letter. When Esther delivers a long overdue message from Deegan’s father, Deegan has some decisions to make about himself:
Charles C. Cole, What We Do Together, part 5; conclusion. New contributor Allie Dawson depicts a professor who is surprised by a selkie in a fairytale forest. She will need him as much as he needs her: The Logician and the Selkie, part 1; part 2. |
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| Short Stories |
How to impress a committee of surgeons with one’s dexterity? Tie fishing flies:
E. B. Fischadler, Helping Hands. A company of five hedgehogs attends a marshmallow cream festival. The eating is tasty but indigestible. And the festival offers other, bigger perils: Channie Greenberg, Miserable at What the Fluff. Time travel is all very well and good, though dangerous. The future may decide that a pre-bereaved, Beatles-smitten inventor may have something much more important to do with his time: Lewayne L. White, Sunrise and Dawn. |
| Poetry | Lana Bella, Late Blue Hour |
| Short Poetry |
Shola Balogun, With Bata Drums Bill Kowaleski, End of the Affair Denny Marshall, Spiral Arms Sky |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes Allie Dawson. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 681 says Pine Knot. |
| The Reading Room |
Charles C. Cole, Gary Inbinder, The Hanged Man review Alison McBain, Michelle Adelman, Piece of Mind review |
| The Art Gallery |
Crystalwizard, Hypermodern Reader Richard Ong, Delphic Vision 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
Readers’ reactions are always welcome.
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