The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 667
| Novel |
Drastic measures revive Mari from her trance, but she is reluctant to say what she has experienced. Cannavaro takes her to safety on Crete. He returns to Dioptra with Alexandros, who has dire theories about what might have happened. Elous Telma, Oikos Nannion
Chapter 17: What’s Wrong With Mari? part 2
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| Serial | Emily hopes to subject Babs and Martin to an enforced tryst in an abandoned boathouse. Emily distrusts Gavin and keeps him under lock and key. Peter Medeiros, Empty Hearts, part 3, part 4. |
| Short Stories |
New contributor Thom Arrell has Hecket interrogated by the authorities for apparently having built a spaceship. The real question is not what he’s made but who he is: Both Sides of the Story, part 1;
part 2;
conclusion.
Isabelle Perkins wins literary fame as the “Hedgehog Lady.” She loses contact with her family, who, in the end, fulfill Bewildering Stories’ admonition: “Readers take everything literally unless they know to do otherwise”: Channie Greenberg, Hedgehogs Démodés. |
| Poetry | New contributor Francis Annagu, Ellen of Paris |
| Short Poetry |
Mike Acker, Dense and Dumb Stephen Ellams, Mirror Man Jason C. Ford, Searching in the Night |
Departments
| Interview | Bewildering Stories interviews Bill Kowaleski. |
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| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes Francis Annagu and Thom Arrell. |
| Discussion | Bewildering Stories discusses Literary Favorites. |
| Challenge | Challenge 667 quaffs a Spiky Drink. |
| The Art Gallery |
Denny Marshall, The Escape Richard Ong, Nefertiti’s Butterfly 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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Copyright © May 16, 2016
by Bewildering Stories
by Bewildering Stories
