The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 1127
| Short Stories |
A plain pine coffin personifies love carried to the grave... and beyond. Domonique Dierickx Krentz, Flesh and Pine, part 1; conclusion New contributor Devorah Roberts illustrates the risk of selling memories for money in Memory Vesting, part 1; conclusion. New contributor Mike Rogers depicts a friendly coterie of science fiction writers who seize the opportunity to make a soused colleague think he is no longer in the early 1950s but is Acting Out the Future, part 1; conclusion. Have you read famous British authors’ stories of 18th-century pirates on the high seas? Let’s give them some characters of later origin and see what happens. James Rumpel, My Strange Adventure at Sea, part 1; conclusion |
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| Flash Fiction |
After an accident victim emerges from a long coma, a new friend encourages him back to life in the outside world. Charles C. Cole, The Long Road Back From Hades |
| Short Poetry |
Gary Beck, Fatherly Duty Brenda K. Mox, A Voice Rang Clear Sultana Raza, Inspired Ventures |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes Devorah Roberts and Mike Rogers. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 1127 says that “bewildering” stories are ones that raise questions. And it notes that this issue has stories that advise us to Take Caution. |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Icelandic Sunrise Channie Greenberg, Coming Loose John D. Connelley, Objects of Curiosity Alison McBain, Toddler Times, 1127 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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