The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 607
| Novel |
The Guardian poses a Sphinx-like riddle. Jigme gives Rodney reason to distrust his senses. John W. Steele, The Chroncle of Belthaeous |
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| Drama | TV depictions of animal mating rituals are truly bewildering stories. What might animals think of human beings? Charles C. Cole, Everybody Wins. |
| Short Stories |
New contributor Joe Pitkin introduces Sandra, to whom a strange image on a surveillance camera reveals something frightening about herself: The Lamp of the Body, part 1; part 2; conclusion. A fictional memoir reveals a psychiatric patient’s loves, regrets and conflicts: Henry F. Tonn, Zelda’s Last Letter. |
| Flash Fiction |
New contributor Kelly Weber gives a fairytale an unusual twist among country folk in the backwoods: Junie B. May Meets a Dragon. |
| Poetry |
Channie Greenberg, He Upbraids His Wife Mark Jones, Valediction for the Dungeon Master |
| Short Poetry |
Dawnell Harrison, The Train Cries |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes Joe Pitkin and Kelly Weber. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 607 is Watching the Watcher. |
| The Reading Room |
Phillip Donnelly, Kev the Vampire : excerpt |
| 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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