The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 976
| Novel | Lucilla has taken over Daisy and wants to get as far away from Daisy’s family as she can. Miranda feels driven to distraction. She is determined to find some answers to her plight and resolves to put an end to the seemingly endless chase: David A. Riley, Lucilla, part 10. |
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| Serial | New contributor David Santiago introduces Ofelia Burgos, who is scheduled to be the featured speaker at a public health conference. Ofelia wakens in a hotel room she hasn’t reserved with a dog she doesn’t recognize and without her lecture notes. Who might be The Saboteur, part 1; part 2? |
| Short Stories |
Fresh Foods, Inc. is a grocery chain that has a peculiarly possessive view of its employees:
Laramie Wyatt Sanchez Graber, We’re a Family Company. New contributor Evelyn Puerto depicts the plight of Emma, who is assigned to attend to her great-aunt Linda on New Year’s day. The aunt is a nice lady, but what Emma has not been told about her will get Emma into a lot of trouble: Green Cheese and Stardust, part 1; part 2; conclusion. |
| Flash Fiction |
Here’s a handy guide to items of post-nuclear nutrition. But a cautionary rule of thumb: even if you mustn’t eat it, it may yet want to eat you: Katherine Sanger, How to Feed Your Family After the Apocalypse. |
| Poetry | A very unusual treat: a poem that humorously describes both itself and its exotic genre: Michael Murry, The Forms Must Be Obeyed |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes Evelyn Puerto and David Santiago. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 976 seems to find a number of Family Jokes in this issue. |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Faraday Cage 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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