The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 942
| News | This is the last regular issue of the first quarter of 2022, winter or summer, according to your hemisphere. Next week, we’ll bring you the Editors’ Choices from issues 932 through 942 in the year’s First Quarterly Review. |
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| Novel |
The Giskin Twins plan violence in extorting a refund from Jim-Jam for charging them to enroll in a boxing school, read his book on etiquette, and help settle their disputes. None of his strategies has worked, and the Twins’ relentless fighting has caused them to be grounded. Mom O'Neily unwittingly saves Jim-Jam from the Twins by watching while he cleans up the O’Neilys’ yard.
Channie Greenberg, The Ill-Advised Adventures of Jim-Jam O’Neily
Chapter Two: Jim-Jam’s Louse
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| Novella |
Adrian recounts his life as a soldier from following his legendary father’s career to falling afoul of a local official and the king in their jealousy of fame and power:
Christopher DeRosa. Nadir of the Labyrinth
Part 3: The Soldier’s Tale
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| Short Stories |
A Union soldier injured while on sentry duty in 1862 receives medical treatment that is far better than he can expect or, apparently, deserve:
Jeffrey Greene, In This House of Music. New contributor Johanna Haas tells a folk tale about a mysterious and dangerous creature in the Appalachian Mountains: Why We Called the Dog “Stumpy”. J. Clayton Stoker brings two prison inmates together in a daring Tarzan Syndrome Breakout, part 1; part 2; conclusion. |
| Poetry |
New contributor Meagan Denese Mealor, Three Strikes in London New contributor Liam Power, Xenos |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes Johanna Haas, Meagan Denese Mealor and Liam Power. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 942 considers punctuating The Story Inside. |
| The Reading Room |
Classic Reissue: Gary Inbinder reviews Lucy Ellman, Ducks, Newburyport |
| The Art Gallery |
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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