The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 958
| Novel |
Medication did nothing to help Billy Lou or his mother. Billy Lou is happy to comply with George in illegal transactions. Jim-Jam conspires to make Doris queen of the senior class’s last school dance. His motivation seems conflicted. Channie Greenberg, The Ill-Advised Adventures of Jim-Jam O’Neily
Chapter 18: Avoiding Interest
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| Serial |
Joy and the captain must find a way to replenish their oxygen supply lest they perish on the asteroid. Their solution will require an innovation as human as it is technological. Rado Dyne, Taking Joy for a Spin
Chapter 4: Riding the Wire
Chapter 5: Any Landing You Can Walk Away From Chapter 6: No Place Like Home, conclusion |
| Short Stories |
Voices of abandonment haunt Celia from the confines of an impossible, haunted forest: Heather Pagano, Faier Forest, part 1; part 2; conclusion. |
| Drama | Eulie is institutionalized because he can’t speak for himself; he can only quote lines from old movies. But his brother Walton understands him, and the two get along quite well when Walton comes to visit: Charles C. Cole, Farmington. |
| Short Poetry |
Mike Acker, I Wonder |
Departments
| Challenge | Challenge 958 asks a common question: Sez Who? |
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| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Power Nexus 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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