The Readers’ Guide

What’s in Issue 502

Short Stories	Andy has little time left. As the coral goes, so goes he. But Andy can decide what he can do with the time he has: Walter Giersbach, The Coral in Belize Is Dying. New contributor Maria Petrova depicts a lady who is an artiste in her own home for an audience that remains unseen: I Have Been Lady Godiva. New contributor Anastasia Towe brings together bereaved survivors in a world beset by zombies: Dead North, part 1; part 2; conclusion. New contributor Jake Walters introduces ‘Cadillac’, who descends from his city in the sky to a blighted world and discovers his name is really ‘Jim’: Sky City, part 1; part 2; conclusion.
Flash Fiction	The river Meander was said to pop up anywhere, and so does a lesser god who is sentenced to live out immortality in one-year terms: Charles C. Cole, A Lesser Immortal.
Poetry	Channie Greenberg, Intergalactic Balladeer Carmen Ruggero, My Balcony Garden

Departments

Interview	*Bewildering Stories* interviews Mike Florian. Related art: The Soaker; Checker Man
Welcome	*Bewildering Stories* welcomes Maria Petrova, Anastasia Towe, and Jake Walters.
Challenge	Challenge 502 goes Remeandering.
The Critics’ Corner	*Bewildering Stories* asks: Who Is This Latter-Day Lady Godiva? What Are the “Moaners”?
The Art Gallery	A randomly rotating selection of Bewildering Stories’ art NASA: Picture of the Day Previous NASA photos Earth Observatory Picture of the Day Our Earth as Art *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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