The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 1010
| Novels |
The Elf King covets a famous and costly portrait, but now its subject wants to redeem it. Charles C. Cole, Joe Avery
Chapter 24: Joe Avery Meets the Morally Bankrupt.
Satet Nosso meets a courtly gentleman in the bar of the Auntighur Auction House and is formally introduced to the young lady who had accosted him at weapon-point when he first entered the building. Patrick Honovich, The Elusive Taste of Kolchoan Blue
Chapter 2: Opponents Worthy and Unworthy, part 1; part 2.
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| Short Stories |
Why are space aliens objects of suspicion and dread? The answer is obvious: if they’re anything like us, we should be terrified.
Jack Bragen, ET Abduction Manual. Pulp fiction authors ought to be careful with the subjects they portray in their novels, lest the real version come back to bite them. Shawn Jacobson, The Day I Went to the Dogs. New contributor Emily McIntyre depicts space aliens with whom contact is difficult and yet yields something new, The Color Xirish, part 1; part 2; conclusion. |
| Flash Fiction |
How can anyone become a musician worthy of a musical instrument with a venerable history and a mother’s expense? Huina Zheng, The Bamboo Flute. |
| Poetry | Shauna Checkley, Missing Children |
| Short Poetry |
Erica Evans, Safe Wings |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes Emily McIntyre. |
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| The Reading Room |
Ron Sanders, Elis Royd excerpt |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, The Eye of a Maelstrom Channie Greenberg, Floods 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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