The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 920
| Short Stories |
New contributor Tim Frank introduces Max, who is wary about drugs. But Max’s girlfriend Tammy is a serious weakness:in the throes of Mass Hysteria. The good old school days may not change all that much in outer space: G. Allen Wilbanks, Two More Years. A young teacher of literature finds a strange mixture of achievements and shortcomings in one of his students: Douglas Young, The Revelation of Paisley Parker, part 1; conclusion. |
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| Flash Fiction |
Strangers who “come from away” may seem rather odd at first: Charles C. Cole, My New Neighbor From Outer Space. |
| Poetry |
Oonah V. Joslin, Cruises of Fond Memory Jack Merwin, The Three Kings of Folly: The Widowed King |
Memoirs |
A teenage girl gets a part-time job as a newspaper carrier. It has an unexpected reward that would be astonishing anywhere but in Canada: Marion J. May, A Change in Times. Sometimes old spirits can be recalled in landscapes that seem to have remained as they were two centuries ago: Richard Ong, In Search of Wuthering Heights. |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes Tim Frank |
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| Challenge | Challenge 920 says, “Uh-oh, Here Comes the Neighborhood.” |
| Letters | Julie Wornan explains how she went about Photographing Waiters and Roses. |
| The Art Gallery |
John Eric Ellison, Dance Studio 304 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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