Issue 494

Novel	Michael E. Lloyd, Missing Emilie Book III: Lost in Action Chapter 4: Love Hurts, part 1; part 2 Chapter 5: Home Truths, conclusion
Novella	Ron Van Sweringen, Flotation Jones, Chapter 12; Chapter 13; Chapter 14; Chapter 15, conclusion
Short Stories	Alex Aro, Skin Bertil Falk, The Saga of the Murdered Bedfellow, part 1; part 2; conclusion Yelena Litinskaya, The Artist, part 1; conclusion — Khudozhnik Beth J. Whiting, Gertie and the Zombies
Flash Fiction	Phil Temples, When Pigs Fly
Poetry	Alessandro Cusimano, Cockaigne
Short Poetry	Hongping Liu, Playing the Accordion
Prose Poetry	Mel Waldman, I Am Your Creation

Welcome	Bewildering Stories welcomes Alex Aro, Yelena Litinskaya, Phil Temples, and Beth J. Whiting
Challenge	Challenge 493 Response: Talk Like One Challenge 494: At the Fetish Festival
The Reading Room	Tom Mahony, Flooding Granite, excerpt
The Art Gallery	A randomly rotating selection of Bewildering Stories’ art NASA: Picture of the Day Earth Observatory Picture of the Day Previous NASA photos Our Earth as Art Sky and Telescope, This Week’s Sky at a Glance