The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 923
| Novel |
New contributor David Rogers introduces Tom James, a college sophomore who accepts a big salary to tend a peculiar farm for the summer. On his first visit as caretaker, he meets an old childhood playmate, Patty. And she tells him what her name really is. If Tom had taken more advanced literature courses, he might drop the money and run. Seeing Buffalo, part 1; part 2. |
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| Serial | The Attending Clinician reveals the ultimate fate of her client. Or does she? The client reveals his name and invites her to re-examine his fate: C. M. Barnes, Eternal Return, part 3; conclusion. |
| Short Stories |
How might a seafaring ancestor have dealt with chronic loneliness? Sheer natural beauty might do wonders:
Shauna Checkley, Seaside Recollection. New contributor Raymond Lane introduces Petunia and her friend Stuart. They seem unsuited to each other and to anybody else. That’s why they go Looking for Love in Alien Places. New contributor Nolan Williams dramatizes some early 19th-century theories about birds. Are today’s conspiracy theories designed to make people believe weird things? No need; people have always been ready to reveal themselves in tall tales spun at the mere flutter of a wing: The Crane and the Spear. |
| Flash Fiction |
When Weymouth returns home for his mother’s funeral, he has to keep up appearances. But what is really behind those appearances? Charles C. Cole, A Farewell to Mom. |
| Poetry | New contributor Mark Tulin, My Neighbor, Garvey |
| Short Poetry |
Oonah V. Joslin, Meditation |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes Donald Guadagni, Raymond Lane, David Rogers, Mark Tulin and Nolan Williams. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 923 echoes some verses from Offenbach’s La Belle Hélène but in a very different context: Leave for Crete. |
| The Reading Room |
Channie Greenberg, Flames and Fire excerpt |
| The Art Gallery |
New contributor Donald Guadagni, Osmosis Inspiration 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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