The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 492
| Novel |
Julia really did have a story inside her. Arthur is free again and finds his closest friends very attentive. Should he embrace Pureza's research and go hunting for Emilie in Paris? Julia encourages it despite herself. After an enforced delay the search for Emilie begins. Michael E. Lloyd, Missing Emilie Book III: Lost in Action Foreword: Que sera, sera
Chapter 1: Unfinished Business, part 1; part 2 Chapter 2: Combing Through the Rubble |
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| Novella | Tucker is sent on a wild goose chase but returns to the White Palace, where bullets fly and knives are brandished. He’s just in time to join Flo as a captive aboard a pirate ship: Ron Van Sweringen, Flotation Jones, Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8. |
| Serial | New contributor C. J. Simpson introduces Roy, who is not exactly a technophobe but suspects the miracle-working “bugs” are not all they’re cracked up to be. He’s right, of course, but will his suspicions be confirmed too late? A Home World Like Roy, part 1; part 2; part 3. |
| Short Stories |
New contributor A. J. Grace-Smith rings a change on the old fairy tale. The ‘Cinderella’ figure is mad as hell and is not going to take it any more: La Nouvelle Cendrillon, part 1; conclusion. New contributor Suzanna Stanbury portrays the sinister motivation and sad end of two characters who deserve each other: On Pitch Lane. |
| Flash Fiction |
Pop puts up a good front to Sonny about modern technology but he’s belied by what he has in his pocket: Michael D. Brooks, The Technophobophile. |
| Short Poetry |
Alessandro Cusimano, Thunderbolt Hongping Liu, Blue Reverie |
| Essay | What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you find a poor homeless person on the street? Mel Waldman, A Place of Desolation. |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes A. J. Grace-Smith, C. J. Simpson and Suzanna Stanbury. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 492 sits Waiting on the Gator. |
| The Photo Album |
Two Editors in Stratford |
| 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 |
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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