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What’s in Issue 483

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Commemoration Bewildering Stories observes its Tenth Anniversary.
Novel Arthur leaves town to change his image, and another spot of harmless fun relieves his dull sojourn. But once he’s back in Nice with a brand-new persona, he can get down to some real detective work — until the spirits of the Sixties come sirening him again.
Michael E. Lloyd, Missing Emilie
Book II: Reparations
Chapter 4: Plus ça change ... part 1; part 2
Serial James and Kevin become increasingly enmeshed in the history of the Bruce house and find themselves likely to replay, in their own way, its sinister story: Edward Reubens, The Bruce Mansion, part 3; conclusion
Short
Stories
Academics and scientists who talk fancy should have all the safety angles covered in their experiments, wouldn’t you think? Not so fast there... Charles C. Cole, The Koenig Incident.

New contributor Darshes A. DiPesa shows that embalming is better witnessed than experienced: The Calling of Cadence Saenger, part 1; conclusion.

Television news has a breathless quality relieved only by advertising. What if we saw what really matters? James Graham, The Jubilee Transmissions.

Separation is painful, but a transition may be eased, provided the process is understood: Margaret Karmazin, Watch Over Me, part 1; conclusion.
Flash
Fiction
New contributor Johanna Miklós shows a single father facing life alone: What John Dreads.
Poetry Alessandro Cusimano, Excellent Madman
Oonah V. Joslin, Still Living the Stone Age
New contributor Aleksandr Smechov, DFW, the Night Before the Morning He Hangs Himself

Departments

Welcome Bewildering Stories welcomes Darshes A. DiPesa and Johanna Miklós.
Interview Bewildering Stories interviews John Stocks.
Challenge Challenge 482 Response: John C. Conway, “The Luminiferous Aether”

Challenge 483 calls A Man by Any Other Name.
The Reading
Room
Don Webb reviews Channie Greenberg’s Don’t Pet the Sweaty Things.
The Art
Gallery
A randomly rotating selection of Bewildering Stories’ art
NASA: Picture of the Day
Sky and Telescope, This Week’s Sky at a Glance

Bewildering Stories News

The Second Quarterly Review: This is the last regular issue of the second quarter of the year. Next week we’ll bring you the Editors’ Choices from issues 472-483.

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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