The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 1088
| Novella | Katharyn receives a “Stranger.” She recalls her Uncle’s failed putsch, imprisonment and best-selling book recounting his struggle for power. A music student, she also hears clearly the rhythm of his spellbinding oratory. Amita Basu, Mirror, part 2 |
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| Short Stories |
A highly controversial political statement in some places and in many centuries: “Friends may be quite different in appearance and origin.”
William Quincy Belle, Hey, Good-Looking! New contribuor Ginger Strivelli depicts a witch whose connections help her save a mother and child wounded in a battle. But be careful: don’t say she’s magical, say merely that she’s Just a Nurse. |
| Flash Fiction |
An uneventful night begins to turn very eventful when Swain and Althea mistake where they parked their vehicle when attending a small-town ghost tour: Charles C. Cole, Althea’s Eventful Night |
| Poetry | Crystalwizard, The Doggerel and the Caterwaul |
| Short Poetry |
Edward Ahern, Miramichi Afternoon Brenda Mox, Filling Up Silence |
Memoir |
A university student who loves history but is uninterested in contemporary politics realizes that there is a radical difference between a good professor and a bad one.
Barbara Krasner, My Independence Day |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes Ginger Strivelli. |
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| The Reading Room |
Richard Thieme, Mobius excerpt |
| Challenge | Challenge 1088 finds that some stories go on tours to find ghosts while others depict Ghosts on Tour. |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Life Force John D. Connelley, Three Amazonigos 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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