The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 848
| News | This is the last regular issue of the season, winter or summer, according to your hemisphere. Next week, we’ll bring you the Editors’ Choices in the First Quarterly Review. |
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| Novels |
Igor identifies the relative whom Yegor has just murdered. Igor makes excuses but points out that the crime now places Yegor under Igor’s control. Natan Dubovitsky, Near Zero
Chapter 11: Odinnadtsat’
McDermott interrogates Paul Welton with the aid of a Cygnian’s telepathy. Welton is a prospective asset, but the position carries a big disadvantage. Bill Kowaleski, Creative Destruction
Chapter 7: Isolation
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| Short Stories |
A truck brings a consignment of party furniture. There is no charge for it, but it does carry a cost: James Penha, Candlenut Farm. New contributor Jie Wang takes a girl through computer-simulation sessions of mourning for a lost friend: iGenesis. |
| Flash Fiction |
When a widower appears at Holcom’s farm, wanting to spread his late wife’s ashes at a romantic place of their youth, Holcom is skeptical at first but finds the event can have a share of tender humor: Charles C. Cole, Bluets, Ferns and Ashes. |
| Poetry | New contributor Ann Cefola, Black Suit |
| Short Poetry |
Robin Helweg-Larsen, The Train Will Stop LindaAnn LoSchiavo, Cemetery Walk in Winter New contributor Edgar Rincón Luna, Friends With a Plane Waiting Michael Wooff, The Chart of Tenderness |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes Ann Cefola, Edgar R. Luna, and Jie Wang. |
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| The Reading Room |
Channie Greenberg, The Wife/Mom excerpt |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Queen of Eden 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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