The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 954
| News | This is the last regular issue of the spring or fall quarter, according to your hemisphere. Next week, we’ll bring you the Editors’ Choices in issues 943-954. We resume regular publication with issue 955 on Monday, June 27. |
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| Novel |
Doris Giskin remains a loyal friend of Jim-Jam’s and warns him against Lima Quinn’s machinations. Jim-Jam frets that protecting himself is taking precious time away from filling out his college applications. He endeavors to get Lima temporarily kidnapped. Additionally, Jim-Jam wants to become intimate with Sebastian Quinn’s scholarly findings. Channie Greenberg, The Ill-Advised Adventures of Jim-Jam O’Neily
Chapter 14: Ammonia and Amines
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| Novella |
Of course, Fima and his friends are discovered hiding in the camels’ saddlebags. But until then, Fima thinks of the refugees’ life of deprivation in Shurab, and an epilogue will tell of his and his mother’s return to Odessa and of his dreams of his father and his father’s actual fate. Emil Draitser, Salty Water, conclusion |
| Short Stories |
Young Abel wonders why his mountain village is backward and cruel while the lowlanders are progressive and content. And yet both peoples share Atua, a kind of providential oracle left by the Ancestors. Abel learns that understanding the disparity requires asking Atua the right questions:
Danko Antolovic, The Ancestors’ Long Shadow, part 1;
conclusion. Why was prehistoric cave art painted so deep below ground? Time travelers want to know, and the painters will be only too happy to show them: David Barber, Hard Being a God. |
| Flash Fiction |
Young Billy’s mother inadvertently teaches her son a lesson about obedience: John D. Connelley, The Devil’s Biscuit. |
| Short Poetry |
Shauna Checkley, Confessions from the Quilting Circle |
Departments
| Challenge | Challenge 954 enjoys Sewing Memories |
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| Letters |
Lisa Davis, Ronsard’s Quand vous serez bien vieille Cleveland W. Gibson comments on: The Bottom of the Pile |
| The Reading Room |
Joseph Carrabis, The Augmented Man excerpt |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Poseidon’s Ghost Sultana Raza, Own Your Own Spot 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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