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What’s in Issue 311

Novella Ticky writes a character of out of the script. Faust buys a pair of polo mallets and proceeds to doctor them: S. H. Linden, A Stacked Deck, part 7; part 8.
Serial While Floozman’s co-workers are distributing loaves and fishes in Zachariah’s camp, a disillusioned Cyril Handlebar makes a deal with a sinister figure who then disappears behind a red curtain: Bertrand Cayzac, Floozman and the Traveling Entertainers, part 5.
Short
Stories
New contributor Kate Aton-Osias depicts a morning in a life of breavement and regret: Ghost Between Moments.

What might be the reaction of a being from an ethereal plane when he materializes as a ‘hitting-hard solid’? Eddy Burger, Hard Bodies, part 1; conclusion.

A New Year’s Eve party turns into one of quite another kind for Mark when he glimpses an attractive but elusive man: Gary W. Crawford, His Ghost.

When and where is a ghost not really a ghost? Bertil Falk, A Dread Hour of the Past, part 1; conclusion.

New contributor Eric J. Krause follows a group of teenagers in a mall. They all have stories of their own befitting Halloween: Children of the Mall.

New contributor Adelaide B. Shaw tells a Halloween story about a lady who experiences deadly culture shock when she and her family move from a city to The Friendliest Little Town in the Northeast.
Flash
Fiction
Werewolves may have their own grief: Janie Hofmann, Trinity of the Werewolves.

New contributor Casey Quinn tells a story in verse about a missed opportunity: My Regret.

New contributor John Saxton takes regret over the top, with an ironic twist: Inseparable.
Acrostic
Poetry
Gary Inbinder, The Ravenous Raven
Michael E. Lloyd, Quo Vadis?
Gloria Watts, Never Look Back
Don Webb, Trick or Treat
Essay New contributor Stuart Sharp raises interesting questions about Monster and Morality in Frankenstein.

Departments

Welcome Bewildering Stories welcomes Kate Aton-Osias, Casey Quinn, John Saxton, Stuart Sharp, and Adelaide B. Shaw.
The Critics’
Corner
Stefan Brenner, Observing Modernity
Gary Inbinder and Don Webb, Happy Ambiguities
Challenge Challenge 311: Drop Till You Shop
Challenge 311 Response: Gary Inbinder, Frankenstein Reformed
The Art
Gallery
Deep Bora, Rohtang Pass
NASA: Picture of the Day

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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