The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 420
| Novel |
Jonas analyzes the boredom he suffers as a couch potato while waiting to make his rounds with the secret packages. He finally delivers all but one. Ásgrímur Hartmannsson, Error, chapter 8 |
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| Serials |
Two airline pilots espy a flying thing from the cornfield. It looks a lot like Ida Mae Wheeler, in episode 10: Glenn Gray, A Day in the Cornfield, part 12. Andy Saperstein, Giancarlo Pieranunzi and Samuel Langhorne Clemens meet in an abandoned but busy subway station. But where, exactly, and when? Rob Hunter, Mark Twain in Milan, part 1; part 2. |
| Short Stories |
New contributor K. C. Gray introduces Toya, who has disturbing visions of dangerous-looking centaur-like men: Horse Men, part 1; conclusion. A mining expedition disturbs a buried telepathic sentience on the Moon: Richard Ong, Sacred Ground, part 1; part 2; conclusion. Scoundrels who mess with Mrs. Miller will have to deal with Rupert and his friends: Ron Van Sweringen, Rupert and the Girls’ Night Out. |
| Flash Fiction |
New contributor Rebecca L. Brown portrays a pathological and curiously mechanistic relationship: A Beautiful Lie. |
| Poetry |
Channie Greenberg, Coins and Fleas: Committed Beggars New contributor Mike McGonegal, Cold Searing Strings |
| Short Poetry |
New contributor Cherry Rao, I Called You My Butter Cookie |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes Rebecca L. Brown, K. C. Gray, and Cherry Rao. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 420 likes to Sing a Song of Cookies. |
| The Reading Room |
Danielle L. Parker reviews Walter Rhein, The Bone Sword. |
| The Art Gallery |
The Photo Album: John Stocks and Oonah V. Joslin NASA: Picture of the Day Sky and Telescope, This Week’s Sky at a Glance |
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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