The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 1023
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Mysteries deepen: Mary O’Neill tells Max Niemand that her brother proposes a meeting in a local forest late at night. Max’s secretary, Rosie Mandelbaum, gives Max a warning clue about Mary. Later, Max is unsurprised to learn that the coroner’s report of Peg Rooney’s death was falsified. Max resolves to take action. Gary Inbinder, The Girl on the Rush Street Bridge
Chapter 10: The Coroner’s Report
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| Novella |
Boothe, the “Welder,” has proved to be a covert insurgent. Dallor, the Storna’s captain, has been of no help to his communications officer and brother, Lemm. The only words that Lemm can trust come to him electronically in a message from his father and in conversations with his close friend, Nickel. Alcuin Fromm, Trust Me, conclusion |
| Short Stories |
Remember the watchword of UFO watchers: “If space aliens are anything like humans, beware!” Perhaps not so oddly, the space aliens say the same thing.
Jack Bragen, Approaching Humans: Instructions at a Glance One is supposed to lose weight by eating less. But what might happen if a convoluted treatment somehow managed to reverse the process? Gabriel S. de Anda, When the Student Is Ready, part 1; part 2; conclusion Howard is terrified that an intruder may have entered his home. But Howard finds that he’s locked himself out of his own house. Howard’s day has not gotten off to a good start. David Henson, A Danger Within |
| Flash Fiction |
In the Old West, where bullets fly. a person might acquire a limp by sheer accident.
Ralph S. Souders, The Day of the Drifter Perfectionism relies on what others think. But where is happiness? What do you think? Huina Zheng, The Good Student Syndrome |
| Poetry | Sultana Raza, Patient Dance |
Departments
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Grand Peacock Channie Greenberg, Trailed by Dusty Snakes Ron Sanders, Queen of Nibs A randomly rotating selection of Bewildering Stories’ art NASA: Picture of the Day Sky and Telescope, This Week’s Sky at a Glance |
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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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