The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 823
| Novel |
Ovid assigns Telos to deal with the consequences of touching the necklace. Meanwhile, in Dust, Izzalia, Riku and Virgil have a big beast of their own to contend with. L. S. Popovich, Echoes From Dust
Chapter 45: Instability
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| Short Stories |
Autumn leaves seem to fall where they will, but they can tidy things up very neatly:
Ed Blundell, Falling Leaves.. New contributor Tyler Marable sends a helpful guide to explain an extraordinary case of reincarnation: Upload and Reboot, part 1; part 2; conclusion. New contributor Matthew G. Rees shows how to escape witchy apartment supervisors in The Bewitched Bathtub of Boris Babikov, part 1; conclusion. |
| Flash Fiction |
Do you feel old and forgotten, a relic of the past? Not so fast there; everything is new: Charles C. Cole, Hello, Future. |
| Poetry | Oonah V. Joslin, I Know a Secret |
| Short Poetry |
Robin Helweg-Larsen, In the Doorway of Her Smile |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes Tyler Marable and Matthew G. Rees. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 823 asks: if there’s No Turning Back, where does one turn? |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Colborne Lodge 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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