The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 1095
| Short Stories |
New contributor Curtis A. Bass brings a a trio of high-school friends back to school on a Halloween midnight immediately after a school shooting. What effects will come from their encounters with the ghosts? Johnny’s Got a Gun, part 1; conclusion. New contributor Robby Dube depicts a process of reincarnation that has a somewhat humorous side: Fade-In. New contributor Hannah Shearer tells of human “trackers” who accompany pods of interstellar whales as they cruise the ocean of the Milky Way: Whale Fall, part 1; conclusion. New contributor Lisa Voorhees brings Tannaz to her son-in-law’s home for The Healing of Tobias Strong, part 1; conclusion. |
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| Flash Fiction |
Even hefty, wheeze-honking hippos must beware of provoking equally hefty though normally less honky ones. Matías Travieso-Diaz, The Overbearing Hippo |
| Poetry | Sultana Raza, Click at First Sight? |
| Short Poetry |
Oonah V Joslin, The Car’s Not the Thing |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes Curtis A. Bass, Robby Dube, Hannah Shearer and Lisa Voorhees, |
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| The Reading Room |
Alison McBain reviews Tricia Copeland’s To Be a Fae |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, The World in Flux Channie Greenberg, Challenges 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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