The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 1140
| Serial |
Charles C. Cole, Joe Avery’s Early Cases
The folkloric people who frequent Joe Avery’s life often have good ideas, but will all their ideas really fit in a world populated by humans?
3. The Faun Who Spoke for the Team You’ve heard of the girl who kissed a frog and married the prince he suddenly became? There may be more to that story than we’ve been told. 4. Joe Avery Loses a Case |
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| Short Stories |
Addiction can lead to harmful choices, and not only for the addict.
Michael J. D’Alfonsi, The Bookie and His Friend New contributor Felix Lilly brings a knight and a folk physician together where emotions appear as flowers in The Garden Where Our Names Were Thorns. New contributor Laura O’Meara shows how shallow, self-absorbed management might get all wrapped up in a production facility with Unforeseen Processes. An unfortunate man and his friend might learn from their space-alien neighbors a variation on a Bewildering Stories motto: “Things could be better, but they could also be worse.” Adam Stone, Everything Is Terrible |
| Flash Fiction |
It’s time to upend another folkloric — and historical — custom, and Josie is just the one to do it. Sandra Crook, A Damsel Undistressed |
| Short Poetry |
Brenda Mox, Washed Clean |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes Felix Lilly and Laura O’Meara. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 1140 observes that some regular issues of BwS contain accounts of Racketeering Galore. |
| Review Article |
Grove Koger, Sax Rohmer, Egyptomania and Late Imperial Gothic |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, The Photosynthesis Machine Channie Greenberg, Floof John D. Connelley, A Lawn Too Far Alison McBain, Toddler Times, 1140 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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