The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 953
| Novel |
Barbra Quinn and her daughter, Lima, move to Jim-Jam's community. Previously, Lima and Jim-Jam had met on the Internet and feuded under aliases. Lima realizes Jim-Jam is her electronic enemy, but Jim-Jam has yet to figure out that Lima is the opponent who has been dogging him and taking advantage of other teens. Lima undertakes to destroy Jim-Jam by setting him up as a used car dealer and matchmaker. Channie Greenberg, The Ill-Advised Adventures of Jim-Jam O’Neily
Chapter 13: A Nemesis’ Hinky Commitment
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| Novella | Stowed away on a camel caravan, little Fima recalls how his mother and relatives managed in the bleak days of hunger and cold in Shurab, And he recalls Uncle Pinya’s risking the loss of a valuable axe in rescuing him from a nighttime abduction: Emil Draitser, Salty Water, part 4. |
| Short Stories |
An Irish detective finds that even in England the “little folk” may come for him in the Haunted Wood:
Cleveland W. Gibson, Halloween Hell, part 1;
conclusion. New contributor Lester L. Weil tells of a singular and otherworldly experience where he met The Guardian Angel and the Predator. |
| Flash Fiction |
Law enforcement can sometimes become a boring and irritating routine. But on one hot summer night, Detective McCoy meets someone who needs him and whom he can help: Gary Clifton, Bottom of the Pile. |
| Poetry | Joseph Carrabis, The Coyotes Are Celebrating |
| Short Poetry |
Shauna Checkley, Days of the Spider King |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes Lester L. Weil. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 953 finds that the interpretation of some events may be a matter of appearance or An Appearance of Matter. |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Stones of Power 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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