What’s in Issue 335

Novel	Richard K. Lyon, The Long Dark Road to Wizardry In the end, Breen learns first hand what Druin and Pyre’s hidden quest is: to thwart the threat from the ‘perfect mirror’: if the ‘real’ side of the mirror is good, then the other side must be its mirror image. And the story ends with a banquet that is the mirror image of the one at its beginning. Book VI: The Puppet’s War Episode 8: The Voice in the Flame Episode 9: Hell Come to Supper, conclusion
Novella	Brian Mudd tells what Lord Nagual demands of him. Does the Nagual call himself ‘Max’ because he’s the ‘maximum demon’? One has to wonder: John W. Steele, Beyond the Island, chapter 7.
Serial	New contributor Sarah Trachtenberg introduces an obscure psychology professor who undertakes research into the process of acquiring public notoriety. This is his report: Manufacturing Celebrity, part 1.
Short Stories	New contributor V. Ulea tells a whimsical tale of a good witch and a bad witch. Or is it about two sisters? Or two cats? Or a sorceress and her cats? You figure it out: The Two Witches of Vildaretz. Tammy feels sorry for herself, but she doesn’t know the half of it: in the darkness, someone is taking pictures of her life: Tom Underhill, Smile, part 1; conclusion. If you like your family doctor, he or she won’t have had anything like the undergraduate career of Matt Laux: Erik Weiss, Student Learning, part 1; conclusion.
Flash Fiction	There’s strength in numbers, both in the game of poker and in life: Nick Allen, The Poker School. New contributor Brian Trent gives a new twist to the old theme of post-apocalypse literature: what if the remnants of civilization are not grandiose monuments but something more mundane and practical? A Rupture in Ragnarok.
Poetry	Ashutosh Ghildiyal, To Innocence John Stocks, To Waverly
Memoir	Gabriel Timar, The World is a Jungle Scenes adapted from real life in the history of Gabriel Timar and his family: Book One: The Pleasant Jungle The Birth of the Clan

Departments

Welcome	*Bewildering Stories* welcomes Sarah Trachtenberg, Brian Trent, and V. Ulea.
Challenge	Challenge 335 Now You See... What?
The Art Gallery	A randomly rotating selection of Bewildering Stories’ art NASA: Picture of the Day Earth Observatory 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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