Issue 256

Novel	Claës Lundin, Oxygen and Aromasia Chapter 1: Aromasia’s Garden
Novella	Bob Brill, Adventures of a Botanist Chapter 11: Operation Cleanup, part 1; part 2 Chapter 12: Happy Ending, conclusion
Serial	Evan Appelman, The Masters of Triage, part 1; part 2
Short Stories	Bryan D. Catherman, Six Feet Over Carlos Cleats, part 1 part 2; part 3; conclusion Bertil Falk, The Hit of a Marksman, part 1; conclusion Branigan Grace, Finding Beauty Marjorie Salzwedel, The Tree Museum, part 1; conclusion Fernando Sorrentino, An Enlightening Book — Spanish original: Un Libro Esclaracedor
Flash Fiction	Richard K. Lyon, The Menace of the Pink Lagoons Bill West, Sam Haine
Poetry	Camille Alexa, Doe Test-Drives Venus Model 237 Richard H. Fay, West Dingleton’s Loss of Humanity
Short Poetry	Michael Lee Johnson, A Poem of the Night

Welcome	Bewildering Stories welcomes Evan Appelman, Bryan Catherman, Richard H. Fay, and Richard K. Lyon
Challenge	Challenge 255 response: Carol Reid writes about “From a Distance” Challenge 256: A Way In and a Way Out
The Art Gallery	A randomly rotating selection of Bewildering Stories’ art NASA: Picture of the Day
The Reading Room	Danielle L. Parker reviews John C. Wright, Fugitives of Chaos
Editorial	Jerry Wright, Stressing Out