The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 693
| Novel |
Is there honor among clavie militants? Two raiding parties make promises but also raise doubts. Bill Kowaleski, Living Standards
Chapter 9: Meeting the Harveys
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| Short Stories |
One Josh Lentin has problems. A second, even worse problems. A third... When parallel universes cross paths, more is not necessarily the merrier:
David Adès, Josh Lentin, part 1; part 2; conclusion. A kindly but strange neighbor named Hattie brings exotic treats and literary advice to the Sarsfields... for a time: Channie Greenberg, Mrs. Morrison. A sky-blue gem that young Lochan discovers becomes part of his mysterious quest in the foothills of the Himalayas: Sean Mulroy, The Sky Gem, part I; part II; part III; part IV, conclusion. |
| Flash Fiction |
Four teeanagers meet a neighborhood vampire. He is not quite what they expect: Charles C. Cole, Mr. McCluskey’s Occupation. |
| Poetry | Richard Stevenson, Skin Walker |
| Short Poetry |
Shola Balogun, Presences Stephen Ellams, Lilium Candidum — The Madonna Lily B. Z. Niditch, A Boston Beat |
Departments
| Challenge |
Challenge 692 Response: The Del Rio Crossing Challenge 692 Response: The Hayek Manifesto |
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| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Gateway to the Prime Dimension 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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