The Readers’ Guide

What’s in Issue 557

Novel	Reminder: Your Managing Editor is traveling this week. I expect to have issue 558 on line by next Monday, but e-mail contacts will be sporadic at best. Please be patient.
Novel	Stella is suspended from her position at the Veterans’ Hospital, and Ivory Burch has been transferred back to Oak Knoll. Both take a moment to reflect on where they’ve been and give us a glimpse of where they may be going. Sherman Smith, Two Blind Men and a Fool Chapter 20: Stella’s Guilt Chapter 21: A Blind Man and a Jap
Serial	New contributor Adam C. Richardson introduces Daniel Blight, a tormented rock star who has become a model of well-adjusted tranquility thanks to the drug Raptura. Now everybody wants some Raptura. Or almost everybody: Happy Planet, part 1; part 2.
Short Stories	If an old woman asks you to leave her alone, even in the harsh wilderness of north Ontario, do as she says; she may be Wisahkeczak. And you do not want to dance with Whiskey Jack: Nathan Elberg, Dancing With Whiskey Jack, part 1; part 2; conclusion New contributor Christina Ferrari puts Lucia into a train compartment with passengers from Hell. Or is that where they’re going? The Intercity Express, part 1; conclusion. New contributor D. Keramitas raises a question: At what point might a stalker become the stalkee, and vice-versa? How I Met My Stalker. As an economy measure and for your own good, all guilty pleasures shall cease at 6 o’clock sharp. Or else: Morris J. Marshall, The Banned-Aid Solution.
Flash Fiction	If a deceased couple can no longer humiliate each other in public, what will they do when they have No Exit? Charles C. Cole, The Bitter Dead.
Poetry	B. Z. Niditch, By the Snowdrifts

Departments

Welcome	*Bewildering Stories* welcomes Christina Ferrari, D. Keramitas, and Adam C. Richardson.
Challenge	Challenge 556 Response discusses “Jason’s Solution” Challenge 557 is stuck with the Road Closed Both Ways.
Paul Celan	Clarise Samuels, Holocaust Visions: The Poetry of Paul Celan Chapter 2: Revolution: The Ideology of Surrealism
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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