The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 989
| News | This is Bewildering Stories’ last regular issue of the first quarter, winter or summer according to your hemisphere. Next week, the First Quarterly Review will bring you the Editors’ Choices from issues 979 through 989. |
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| Novels |
Did you know that Pinocchio had an elder brother? And given the choice of being human or vegetation, which might a hybrid prefer? Charles C. Cole, Joe Avery
Chapter 7: Not Just Another Human-Plant Hybrid
Max Niemand wakens after a vivid premonitory dream. He has a hangover after tying one on with Duke Placco. Max remembers he has a meeting with Miss Moore in a park that afternoon. Gary Inbinder, Phantom Point
Chapter 11: Miss Moore
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| Novella | Helen Simmons is almost 13, but at even so young an age, she makes a big decision about her life: Theresa Konwinski, Leaving Hedges, part 4.1; conclusion. |
| Short Stories |
Max is smitten with beautiful Bella, and her father is ready with some intricate mythology to explain why:
D. A. Cairns, The Hairy Bride, part 1; conclusion. Matthew dislikes camping out, and he’s forgotten to waterproof the tent, to boot. But a trip to the Blue Ridge Mountains will grant him an unforgettable vision: Jeffrey Greene, A Break in the Clouds. New contributor Christina Janousek takes an archeologist to a dig where she finds evidence of The Tale of Romir and Solana, part 1; conclusion. |
| Flash Fiction |
New contributor K. J. Watson has a shoplifter learn why she might say, I’m Damned. |
| Poetry | New contributor Kenneth Hill, Dangerous Fission |
| Short Poetry |
Edward Ahern, Doing Nothing Shauna Checkley, Cat Mafia |
Departments
| Discussions |
Don Webb, Print Books or E-Books? —— Compliments |
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| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes Kenneth Hill, Christina Janousek and K. J. Watson. |
| Challenge |
Challenge 989 espies Connections being made or, at least, attempted. Challenge 989 Response: Boyfriends in Days of Yore |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Lightning Rod John Eric Ellison, Waiting at the AI Ferris Wheel 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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