The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 970
| Novel | Lucilla appears to feel quite happy living in Miranda’s apartment. Miranda finds that she is happy with the arrangement, as well. Miranda’s boss, Mary, is not: David A. Riley, Lucilla, part 4. |
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| Novella | Doustian is busy with administrative details following the death of his older brother, Cenn. Meanwhile, he must put up with family members’ coming to his tent to list their enemies and draw lines in the sand: Alcuin Fromm, In the High Pass, part 3. |
| Short Stories |
Priscilla loves her lime-green bicycle, but a tandem bicycle would prove useful if she could get a boyfriend to ride it with her:
Shauna Checkley, The Lime-Green Bicycle. An imperturbable North Dakota farmer does a good deed for an injured space traveler: Ronald Larsen, The Farmer and the Dragon. New contributor Susan Egan shows how history could take retribution on a ballet company that disrespects it by making The Witches Dance. |
| Flash Fiction |
New contributor Jes Malitoris shows why we might feel respect for our eyes, even if they are, at times, Imperfect Mechanisms. |
| Poetry | Pawel Markiewicz, In the Bewitched Aviary |
| Short Poetry |
Edward Ahern, Caveat Lector |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes Susan Egan and Jes Malitoris. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 970 figures that if second sight isn’t good enough, try Third Sight. |
| The Reading Room |
Boris Kokotov, ed., Welcome to the Smashing Center excerpts review by Richard Rose |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Demon Rising B. K. Mox, A Madame’s Clientele 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
Readers’ reactions are always welcome.
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