The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 815
| Novel |
Ovid, Riku and Telos are dispatched to make a desperate effort to thwart Izzalia’s rogue beast-form. They soon learn what failure will cost. L. S. Popovich, Echoes From Dust |
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| Serial | Novah’s life-giving magick complements that of the Songcaster, but their combat against knights of death and the desert incurs bitter losses: Scott Hughes, Songcaster and Little Dune, part 3; conclusion. |
| Short Stories |
New contributor Ernst Schoen-Rene shows how little remains of an individual’s and a culture’s identity when memories are bargained away to The Memory Broker, part 1;
conclusion. New contributor A. M. Townsend gives a fashion-magazine editor a case of culture shock that ends in a Psychedelic Sunrise, part 1; conclusion. |
| Flash Fiction |
Tuffy and his grandpa take literary marketing to a whole new level:
Charles C. Cole, Tuffy McShane Supports the Arts. New contributor Ryan Thorpe brings high-interest lender Trent into a meditation group. Unwelcome unsurprises may await participants in their quest for The Spirit Animal. |
| Short Poetry |
Edward Ahern, Low Tide Gary Beck, Rapt |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes Ernst Schoen-Rene, Ryan Thorpe and A. M. Townsend. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 815 tells you to say “cheese” and Hold That Nose. |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Solar Fusion 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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