The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 957
| Novel |
Ralph’s mom prefers that her child be sent to a locked ward rather than join the armed forces. Ralph’s father, George, uses him as a balleting decoy when George makes drug deals at the local hospital. Ralph is often hungry and bored and on the run from the police. On a farm at the outskirts of town, Doris Giskin visits her uncle, Billy Lou. Both Billy Lou and his mom, Doris’s grandma, have been given medication. Channie Greenberg, The Ill-Advised Adventures of Jim-Jam O’Neily
Chapter 17: Demented Patients
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| Serial | New contributor Rado Dyne introduces a team of asteroid miners working in the Proxima Centauri system. Their colorful means of locomotion involves Taking Joy for a Spin. |
| Short Stories |
An agoraphobic misanthrope finds that the grand old Winterlock manor is quite suitably isolated for his temperament. The previous occupant’s diary leads him to realize that the property has a purpose he did not expect:
Michael Burnett, The Lure of Solitude, part 1;
conclusion. New contributor Susan Thomas takes Michael and Sarah on a wedding-day tour of Niagara Falls. In view of Michael’s history, the couple might have chosen a drier locale and not risked A Haunting at Bridal Veil Falls. Sam loves paintings and enjoys examining them closely. For him, they can even take on a mysterious life of their own: H. E. Vogl, The Painting at Redfield Inn. |
| Prose Poetry |
New contributor Elizabeth Broadbent goes on three cross-country tours to celebrate a cultural icon and illustrate Three Ways Elvis Didn’t Die. |
| Short Poetry |
Gary Beck, Human Guidance |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes... |
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| Challenge | Challenge 957 repeats a well-known phrase: “The goblins are Gonna Gitcha if you don’t watch out.” |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Descending Fireflies Channie Greenberg, Wildlife 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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