The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 1019
| News | Halloween is a time for bewildering stories and, at Bewildering Stories, it’s Halloween all the time! |
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| Novel |
Peg Rooney was a key operative in a mugging racket secretly protected by police and a judge. Now she’s a murder victim, and Max Niemand finds that a potential witness has gone missing. Gary Inbinder, The Girl on the Rush Street Bridge |
| Novella | The Huntress has arrived in time to save the Storna, but now Lemm and Dallor must decide what to make of their father’s warning against a dangerous individual. Alcuin Fromm, Trust Me, part 2 |
| Short Stories |
New contributor J. T. Green depicts a humanity unready to receive an alien visitor at Roswell, part 1;
part 2;
conclusion. New contributor Katherine Mezzacappa brings a man to a mysterious, cult-like place called The Dome, part 1; conclusion. |
| Flash Fiction |
Military intelligence trolls say that armored cats are cute, fuzzy battle tanks. Or, wait... is it the other way around?
Shauna Checkley, Once Upon a Drone When your ex is shaking you down for more money, a friend in deed might be a helpful, workaday vampire. Charles C. Cole, Out of the Fire, Into the Night |
| Poetry | David Barber, Frankenstein Days |
| Short Poetry |
Edward Ahern, De Gustibus LindaAnn LoSchiavo, Dracula Plans His Halloween Soirée |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes J. T. Green and Katherine Mezzacappa . |
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| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, The Lion God Channie Greenberg, Two-Way Artist Ron Sanders, The Emergency Room 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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