The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 795
| Serial | New contributor Gordon Sun introduces Sue and her young son, Danny, in a near-future dystopia where the members of only two professions have the Right to Live, part 1; part 2. |
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| Short Stories |
No matter when or where, politeness works from the top down as well as from the bottom up:
Gary Clifton, The Dragon Slayer’s Helper. The common cold is contagious. So is mass hysteria: Arthur Jackson, The Unexpected Friend, part 1; conclusion. |
| Flash Fiction |
Don’t have the time or talent to write love texts? Delegate the chore to someone who is as adept with a pen or cellphone as with a sword:
Charles C. Cole, Beauregard the Beatific. New contributor Jen Durbent depicts a mother’s surprise in finding a new app that tells her Your Walls Can Talk. |
| Poetry |
Kaci Skiles Laws, Leland Gaunt Ken Poyner, Common Goods |
| Short Poetry |
Crystalwizard, I Know You |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes Jen Durbent and Gordon Sun. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 795 gets suspicious when things say, Word Has It That... |
| The Photo Album |
Richard Ong, Walking on Ice |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Starship Nebula 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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