The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 577
| News |
This is the last regular issue of the second quarter. Next week we’ll bring you the Second Quarterly Review, the editors’ choices from issues 566-577. |
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| Short Stories |
A swamp is a poor home even for a recluse like Duane. But in the evening, dancing lights seem to offer a promise: Edward Ahern, Home Fires Burning. New contributor Lela Marie De La Garza shows that foolhardiness can be dangerous even when the traditions it defies are outmoded: The Door. Rights have limits. What might happen when those limits aren’t observed? Irene Maschke, Food for Thought. Aspiring artist Ker Benfield has gained shoelaces in a bad bargain: Ron Van Sweringen, A Life Without Shoelaces. |
| Flash Fiction |
Truth cannot be taken by force or guile: JD Dehart, The Mapmaker Parable. |
| Poetry | John Stocks, Chantry’s Sleeping Children |
| Short Poetry |
Danielle L. Parker, A Wife Ponders Broken Triangles |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes Lela Marie De La Garza. |
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| The Critics’ Corner |
Some problems need a solution. But what shall we do with solutions that have no problem? Don Webb, The Secular Charter. |
| Challenge |
Challenge 573 Response: Bertrand Cayzac discusses Auto-Mate and Habit. Challenge 577 hollers Tie’em If You Got’em. |
| 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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