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What’s in Issue 370

Novel After a gothic evening out on the town, Diana visits her psychoanalyst:
Robert N. Stephenson, Uttuku
Short
Stories
If there were a great coffee-cup conspiracy to make us all zombies, how could we tell? Ásgrímur Hartmannsson, Zombieworld.

New contributor Kumar Pradhan introduces a businessman whose routine life is punctuated by the prospect of romantic interest. His lesson is carpe diem: A Bit of Sky, part 1; conclusion.

How might Jason and his Argonauts have handled the U.S. debate over medical care? Thomas Lee Joseph Smith, Jason’s Log.

New contributor D. Kai Wilson portrays a spaceship’s computer that also happens to be a mother: Mothership, part 1; part 2; conclusion.
Flash
Fiction
Might ordinary events have a supernatural dimension? Look closely: Nick Allen, To a Casual Observer.

What is reading all about, anyway? Michael D. Brooks, That’s About the Short of It.
Poetry Rebecca Lu Kiernan, Cold War
Short
Poetry
Arnold Hollander, It’s Raining
Mary B. McArdle, Shadow Art
Marina J. Neary, A Royal Tea Party
Memoir A sailor is remembered in diaries, poems, narratives and photos: V. Ulea, Sea Pilot on the Smokestack, part 1; conclusion.

Departments

Welcome Bewildering Stories welcomes Kumar Pradhan and D. Kai Wilson.
Challenge Challenge 370 cautions: Watch Where You’re Rowing.
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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