The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 1054
| Novels |
Lemm’s friendly AI, Nickel, discovers where exculpatory legal evidence can be found. Meanwhile, Lemm receives two crucial communications, including a posthumous message from Tinnoli.
Alcuin Fromm, Unseen Friends, Unseen Foes, part 5 Max Niemand plans to expand his office by hiring a secretary. Meanwhile, he goes to Otto’s Tavern at New Year’s and meets with Otto and a police officer, Jimmy Dolan. They give Max a clue to what may be a new case. Gary Inbinder, Chicago Max
Chapter 2: A New Case for the New Year, part 1; part 2
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| Short Stories |
A retired probation officer is visited by an intruder who sits at the kitchen table. The stranger is harmless and says not a word. Since he will accompany his host but won’t leave, what can the officer do but devise increasingly ingenious plans to ditch him?
James Hanna, The Silent Stalker, part 1;
conclusion New contributor T. G. Roettiger describes how an ordinary citizen might commit a compulsive crime in public and with impunity. Kitty Krunch, part 1; conclusion How can a mother relate to an underachieving child in a society where children’s academic standing strongly affects their families’ social status? Huina Zheng, She Is a Great Mother, part 1; conclusion |
| Flash Fiction |
What might become of a school child who is driven to escape parental abuse? Gil Hoy, Those Winter Mornings |
| Poetry | New contributor Jonathan Chibuike Ukah, The Scherzo |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes T. G. Roettiger and Jonathan Chibuike Ukah. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 1054 says of some music and poetry that it Ain’t No Joke. |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Lost City of Gold Channie Greenberg, Demonstration Ron Sanders, Relic 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: Everything we perceive comes to us from the past. Everything we do goes into the future.
Randomly selected classic rejection notice: I haven’t really the foggiest idea about what the man is trying to say. Apparently the author intends it to be funny, possibly even satire, but it is really not funny on any intellectual level. — (for Joseph Heller’s Catch-22)
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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