The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 845
| Novels |
When Yegor embarks on a career, he decides to “reduce his existence to a bare minimum” in order to avoid befouling his environment with evil. His obscure entry-level position in a government publishing house brings him into contact with 20th-century Russian and American literature. Natan Dubovitsky, Near Zero
Chapter 8: Vosem’
The Sales Manager and Salesman devise a way to circumvent bureaucratic foot-dragging in implementing fusion power on Earth. Bill Kowaleski, Creative Destruction
Chapter 4: On Cygnus Prime
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| Short Stories |
New contributor Madi Giovina shows how fruitful it can be to employ different ways — or genres — of Crying in Public. Late in life, Leslie Newbridge ponders the meaning of a fleeting contact made at an early age: Jeffrey Greene, The Picker Boy, part 1; conclusion. New contributor DL Shirey introduces an 8-year old boy who views his world from the viewpoint of his Magic Nation, part 1; conclusion. |
| Flash Fiction |
New contributor Andrew Newall explores the ramifications of the guilt experienced by The Fire Twin. |
| Poetry | Michael Amitin, Heartbreak Café |
| Short Poetry |
Nancy D. Bonazzoli, Surrender New contributor Wendy Holborow, Stirred Words |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes Madi Giovina, Wendy Holborow, Andrew Newall and DL Shirey. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 845 finds that Dr. Freud’s cigar isn’t always Just a Cigar. |
| The Critics’ Corner |
Bewildering Stories discusses What Is a Ghost? |
| The Reading Room |
Mickey J. Corrigan, What I Did for Love excerpt |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Northern Bliss 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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