The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 735
| News | Tue 24 Oct: Your Managing Editor is now back on line after Rogers’ shutdown of 5 days, 11 hours. But how long will it last? “Once burned, twice shy,” hence a new backup connection with Bell Canada. The usual priorities are in effect: the website; correspondence with contributors; administrative e-mail. |
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| Novel |
The mysterious Lola Blue is glimpsed but escapes. Harper and McCoy discover a broken ring in Stick’s car. Wendel tells all he knows. Gary Clifton, The Dead Bin |
| Novella |
Krista interviews for a job as a financial planner at DBC. A mysterious “student” shows up in her class, and she touches base with Detective Tran. Morris J. Marshall, Volatility Cycles |
| Serial |
Tessa’s mother warns her about the return of a mysterious man known only as “He.” Tessa knows “He” is dangerous but does not steer clear of him, quite the contrary. K. C. Gray, Of Monsters and Madmen |
| Short Stories |
If you want to establish instantaneous communications, be sure to acquire the proper licenses first:
Ronald Linson, Tapping the Line. In the darkest hours of the Blitz, Mrs Proctor calls upon Major Charles Wilkinson to summon aid from the depths of ancient mythology: Hannah Spencer, Ravensong, part 1; conclusion. |
| Flash Fiction |
A young reporter discovers that there may be both more and less to the rural Chastain’s faith-healing than anyone suspected:
Charles C. Cole, The Subtle Hydropathist. New contributor Christopher Stanley depicts a double apocalypse in The Violent Birth of Blue. |
| Poetry | Oonah V. Joslin, Losing Definition |
| Short Poetry |
Sultana Raza, Keats’s Quantic Entanglement |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes Christopher Stanley. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 735 says We Interrupt This Program... |
| Letters | Johanna Miklós and Bewildering Stories discuss Saint Cabbage and Issue 734. |
| The Reading Room |
Alison McBain reviews Gary Beck, Virtual Living. |
| The Art Gallery |
Denny Marshall, Square-Jawed 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
Readers’ reactions are always welcome.
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