Bewildering Stories’ Second Quarterly Review, 2008

Editors’ Choices: issues 284-296

Short Stories
The Order of the Hot Potato

Everything in green is a link.

Page 1: Serials, Essays, Memoirs, Departments
Page 2: Poetry, Short Poetry, Flash Fiction, Season’s Best Issues

Selections are listed in alphabetical order by author.

Part IV : Short Stories

Gary Beck, The Last Glance
Bill Bowler, The Wall
Patrick Downing, Unit Lost
Jason Earls, Mersenne’s Mistake
Bosley Gravel, Jocko Homo
Jacqueline Gum, Night Traveler
John Kuhn, All-White Jury
RD Larson,

Wind From the Edge of the Cloud

Andrew Males, Knifepoint

R. Scott McCoy, Day Twenty
Rebecca McNulty, Fireside
Corey Mesler,

From the Desk of Jojo Self

Frank Minogue, Sonny Boy
Alex Moisi, From Point A to Point B
Brandon Myers, Ex Libris Pavonis
Carmen Ruggero, Eighty-Six Eggs
Chris Ward, A Thousand Lives of Flies

Part V : The Order of the Hot Potato

And now, since “Bewildering” Stories is a friend of the unconventional, here are the eleven most controversial works of the quarter, the ones on which the review editors did not reach a consensus for one reason or another. Three of the titles appear in the Editors’ Choices; the rest do not. The more divergent the votes were, the hotter the Potato is.

The titles are listed in descending order with the most controversial first. The links lead to the issues in which they appear.

M. Anton Mitts, Body Snatching
Michael A. Potter, Alessandro's Unexpected Traverse
Mel Waldman, Heaven and Hell
Mark Murdock, Analogical Meaning in Lord of the Rings
Patrick Downing, Unit Lost
Tim Simmons, A Body of Water
Christopher Barnes, Pit Stop
Fiona Davis, The Test
Randy Foster, Desperate Women
Paul Johnson, A Sea of Faces
Robert R. Brooks, Xenolith

The Hottest-Potato Issues of the Quarter

As a special treat, Bewildering Stories links to
the three most controversial issues of the quarter:

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