The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 973
| Novel | While Miranda hides in her apartment bedroom, someone or something tears Lucilla to pieces in the living room. The police can find no evidence that Miranda committed the grisly murder. But Miranda will hear Lucilla’s voice again: David A. Riley, Lucilla, part 7. |
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| Novella | Pavill’s expedition leaves Doustian with too small a force to defend the fort at the High Pass against a mass assault. Meanwhile, Pavill’s army is routed by archers in magical camouflage: Alcuin Fromm, In the High Pass, part 6. |
| Short Stories |
New contributor Dee Artea depicts the thoughts of Iris, a lady who is too old to remember what she and her teemage boyfriend did or didn’t do in the 1950’s. She wants to make up for lost time when she asks him Where Do the Freckles Go? In the far future, Earth sends out ships to re-establish connections with its interstellar colonies. One of the colonies conjures up bad memories: Anthony Lukas, Dark History, part 1; part 2; conclusion. Dinah would love to become a doctor, but it’s very difficult, because her family’s DNA has caused them to be exiled to a remote tropical island: L. B. Zinger, The One Percent, part 1; part 2; conclusion. |
| Flash Fiction |
The Halloween season extends from late October to early November. Here’s a witch who turns up late in the day, but she comes in good time to a gentleman and to readers who need her: Charles C. Cole, The Late Witch. |
| Poetry | Bill Bowler, 1984 Is Now |
| Short Poetry |
New contributor Matthew Isaacs, The Cycle of Yaldabaoth |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes Dee Artea and Matthew Isaacs. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 973 figures that if babies don’t come from parents, one must find a way to Feed the Stork. |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Ancient Gods B. K. Mox, Youth’s Passions Unleashed 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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