The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 709
| Novel |
A strange cult harboring a mysterious chalice dissolves in a brawl over power and status. Jackson Bain precipitates the same thing at the highest levels of government but with a minimum of incivility. Bill Kowaleski, Living Standards |
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| Serial | A divorce attorney begins to realize that his business is being disrupted by the wisdom berry. Meanwhile, a special branch of the army comes looking for the eccentric genius, Master Fu: Joseph McKinley, Perfect Wisdom Berry Blast, part 3; part 4. |
| Short Stories |
Jensen is under intense pressure to meet his sales quota, and he wants to buy a genetically modified puppy for his girlfriend. But his most immediate problem is his potential customers:
Patrick Doerksen, There Will Be No Puppy, part 1; conclusion. New contributor Simon Williams shows how a truly bewildering story might arouse curiosity and arrest The Gentle Decay of the Past, part 1; conclusion. |
| Flash Fiction |
New contributor Raluca Balasa shows how a schoolboy might lose a girl friend to an irreconcilable conflict: The First Kill. |
| Poetry | Stephen Ellams, Sylvia |
| Short Poetry |
Gary Beck, Prisoners Are Entitled Karin S. Heigl, River Glow — Flußglanz |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes Raluca Balasa. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 709 enjoins you to Heed the Bark. |
| The Reading Room |
Kenneth C. Eng, Spell Knights excerpt |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Where the River Glows 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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