The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 701
| Novel |
“Better” may not always be the “best,” by a long shot. For a runaway like young Paco, almost anything else would be better. Bill Kowaleski, Living Standards |
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| Short Stories |
New contributor Mary-Jean Harris introduces a pair of ghost hunters who get a lot more than they bargained for in the Puppet Masters, part 1; conclusion. What if a “personality test” were taken as a test of the tester’s personality? Bob Welbaum, The Personality Test. |
| Flash Fiction |
Sometimes, dreams of recapturing one’s lost youth are best left as dreams: Jerry Guarino, Dream a Little Dream. |
| Poetry | New contributor Elizabeth Racz, Last Night |
| Short Poetry |
Shola Balogun, Strange Fire Denny Marshall, Big Bang Center Marjorie Sadin, Down the Rue de la Paix |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes Mary-Jean Harris and Elizabeth Racz. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 701 perceives some Unfinished Business. |
| The Reading Room |
Alison McBain reviews Christopher Moore, The Stupidest Angel. |
| The Art Gallery |
Channie Greenberg, A Last Touch of Winter 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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