The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 907
| News | This is the last regular issue of the second quarter of the year: spring or fall according to your hemisphere. Next week, we’ll bring you the Editors’ Choices in the Second Quarterly Review. |
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| Novel |
Tom Hanauer has been officially dismissed as Clara Morhan’s “night companion,” but he has become one of another kind to her daughter Catherine. Tom is determined to meet the patriarch Patrick Morhan, to whom Tom attributes his vivid nightmares. His wish will be amply fulfilled. Jeffrey Greene, The Night Companion |
| Novella |
Kate and Quince have been working a grueling schedule on the mining panet Oberon. On a rare rest day, they could become even better friends. Instead, they both make the same mistake. Nemo West, What Kate Found in the Fringe, part 5 |
| Short Stories |
New contributor Peggy Gerber bakes a cautionary confection for those who find certain substances irresistible: The Cake With the Secret Ingredient. New contributor D. Tyler Pierson shows how to settle intragalactic conflicts. Just shoot an improvised black hole at whatever is in one’s Line of Sight, part 1; conclusion. |
| Flash Fiction |
We can easily foresee no good coming when lethal weapons of any size fall into the wrong hands: Gary Clifton, Mercy’s Indifference. |
| Poetry | New contributor Jessica Lee McMillan, Taking Shape |
| Short Poetry |
New contributor Erica Evans, My Wings |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes Erica Evans, Peggy Gerber, Jessica Lee McMillan, and D. Tyler Pierson. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 907 finds various reasons to say, “Not So Fast there.” |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, The Mermaid Queen 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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