The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 984
| Novel |
In Santa Teresa, Max Niemand visits a lawyer by the name of Williams. Max can glean clues even from silence and evasions. Gary Inbinder, Phantom Point
Chapter 6: Lawyer Williams
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| Serial | A family recounts the exploits of the father, who is a super-soldier and haunted by an offended djinni: A. M. Johnson, Dad is a Ninja, part 1; part 2. |
| Short Stories |
In a future New York City suffering the consequences of climate change, subways become underwater canals beset with perils:
David Castlewitz, Water Taxi Boatman, part 1;
conclusion. New contributor Michael Fowler depicts the intensely beguiling hypnotic effects that space aliens might have on unsuspecting Earthlings: A Memory Close to Her, part 1; conclusion. |
| Flash Fiction |
A highway in the Maine woodlands has poignant intersections with other, well-traveled roads of life: Charles C. Cole, That Night, at Pit 41. |
| Poetry | Mike Acker, Thoughtless |
| Short Poetry |
Shauna Checkley, Urban Goddess |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes Michael Fowler. |
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| Editorial | Don Webb sagely advises: Click Here, Not There. |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Sorcerer’s Domain 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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