The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 940
| Novella | New contributor Christopher DeRosa lets condemned prisoners tell their stories when they go towards The Nadir of the Labyrinth, Introduction. |
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| Short Stories |
The street dogs of Bangalore live out stories that people might find familiar:
Amita Basu, The Why and the How, part 1;
conclusion. A widow’s loss brings her to a cave that may hold solace: Miriam E. Neiberg, An Unexpected Find. New contributor Leonore Wilson introduces Stan, an intellectually curious boy who asks his father, a cult priest, Where Sins Go. |
| Flash Fiction |
Adults may find a lifetime of implications in a child’s passing fancy: Charles C Cole, The Neighborhood Business. |
| Poetry | Catherine Coundjeris, A History of Dragons |
| Short Poetry |
Mike Acker, Ancient Echoes |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes Christopher DeRosa and Leonore Wilson. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 940 says that some cults have a gastronomical way of looking at Sins, Just Dessert. |
| The Reading Room |
LindaAnn LoSchiavo, A Route Obscure and Lonely excerpt |
| The Art Gallery |
Channie Greenberg, Sunflower 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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