Bewildering Stories

What’s in Issue 115

Novels The four explorers emerge from the mountain tunnel and begin a painful descent into the valley. Then, suddenly, disaster strikes: Tala Bar, Gaia, chapter 8: The Valley, part I, installment 2 ; installment 3.

Roberto Sanhueza is back with another chapter of Katts and Dawgs. Phydo teams up with his old friend Thomm, and they set off on the trail of a serial killer who murders by the numbers: Part 6: Death at Twilight.
Novella Harry Stafford’s serial murders draw him into a net of suspicion, and a meeting with a friend suddenly goes drastically wrong. Meanwhile, another victim approaches: Jonathan M. Sweet, The Kestron Lenses, part 5.
Serials Joel Gn begins a love story that is somewhere between fantasy and science fiction: Roxanne, part 1.

Michael Hanson begins an epic battle royal where three heroes armed with magic penetrate an oppressive and deadly dungeon in search of its sinister master: Thaumaturgical Fracas, part 1.
Short
Stories
Byron Bailey depicts a battle between a dragon and a man from an unusual point of view: the dragon’s: Unification.

Joseph F. Pumilia and Steven Utley show that bug-eyed monster space aliens also write for a living, even if they do have to produce masterpieces: Pulling Through.

Norman A. Rubin isn’t writing about misery at all; quite the contrary. It’s all in how you see things: Misery Loves Company.
Flash Fiction Remember those mattress and pillow tags that say “Do Not Remove (or else!)”? Pay heed, pay careful heed, lest Strange Things Begin to Happen! Sean Hower, Quietus.
Poetry Michael Murry continues his poems in the Gaelic bardic style. Mercenaries and profiteers are a part of war, along with the recruits and volunteers: Dragon’s Teeth.

Departments

Review
Article
Don Webb and a virtual friend undertake an unconventional reappraisal of Asimov’s strangest novel and assess its place in the author’s works: Isaac Asimov’s The End of Eternity : part 1 ; conclusion.
Challenge Challenge 115 has three options, one of which is out of this world:
Turnabouts are Fair Play
Letters Eric S. Brown is in the path of the hurricanes and writes to us from The Storm Front.
Joel Gn describes an exotic cultural rite of passage: Turning 21 in Singapore.
José Joaquín Ramos sends us a rather unusual want ad: Help Wanted.
The Reading
Room
Jerry Wright reviews Mercedes Lackey’s The Fairy Godmother.
Editorial Jerry Wright, The Price of Cheese

In Times to Come

Issue 116 will bring us a third war poem from Michael Murry in his Gaelic bardic style; the serials will continue or conclude; and the short stories will surprise and Bewilder us all... as usual !

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