The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 1013
| News | This is the last regular issue of the northern summer or southern winter, according to your hemisphere. Next week we’ll bring you the Editors’ Choices in the Third Quarterly Review. Issue 1014 is scheduled for September 25, 2023. |
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| Novels |
In the age-old joint venture of reality and imagination, who’s running the show? Joe Avery meets a number of authority figures. Both they and he have distinct roles on the stage of art and literature. Charles C. Cole, Joe Avery Satet is given the masks that his master has sent him for. Now he must elude pursuit. Patrick Honovich, The Elusive Taste of Kolchoan Blue Chapter 5: Receipt Is Only the Smallest Part |
| Short Stories |
In a missing person’s case, material evidence can be precious but also highly ambiguous:
Jeffrey Greene, The Wig, part 1;
conclusion Two time travelers have been engaging in the time-honored endeavor to change history for the better. Their notebook is recovered in a timeline where some of the events it records actually occurred: Kjetil Jansen, Where the Bear Dances, part 1; conclusion New contributor Sophia-Maria Nicolopoulos depicts a young refugee from Syria resolutely facing down a figure from her nightmares: And Then There Shall Be Rain, part 1; conclusion |
| Flash Fiction |
A family lawyer suffering burnout from depressing casework seeks relief by hiking on New Zealand’s picturesque Aoraka Peninsula. But the worst case of his career pursues him: Bruce Costello, Double Edge |
| Short Poetry |
Denny Marshall, Walking the Shoreline |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes Sophia-Maria Nicolopoulos. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 1013 encourages everyone to be mindful of Accident Prevention. |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Energy Into Matter Channie Greenberg, Future Peach Tree Ron Sanders, Evolution 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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