What’s in Issue 360

Novel	George Pike arranges to leave his orbit-changing project in capable hands. Now he has to find out exactly where he is: Gabriel S. Timar, The Hades Connection Chapter 24, part 1; part 2
Serial	The portable actuarial device exerts a paralyzingly hypnotic fascination on hapless Mike Devlin. His friends come to the rescue, sort of... Daniel Shebses, The Deathalator, part 3; conclusion.
Short Stories	New contributor Jaleta Clegg depicts a grocery store from Hell, where food makes insidious remarks to the dietarily challenged: Glutton’s Purgatory. New contributor Shae Davidson looks at people from a peculiar perspective, where visual time is a function of distance: By the Lake: the Trees, Singing. New contributor Robert E. Keller poses the paradox of thinking about not thinking: The Great Alien Mind. New contributor Byron Petrakis introduces Theodoros, an old man so unjustly dispossessed that he must call upon The Arrows of Apollo. Two lovers with mirroring disfigurements discover whether they’re really made for each other: Jonathan M. Sweet, Scarred Deep.
Flash Fiction	Want to improve your spouse? Be careful what you ask for; you may have to make hard decisions about trade-offs: Channie Greenberg, The Husband Remaking Machine.
Poetry	Marta T. Coppola, Sensing Rebecca Lu Kiernan, Anatomy of a Secret Life John Stocks, Imagined You
Short Poetry	Bertil Falk, Afterwards Retrospective, full circle: Thomas R., Afterwards (from issue 1)

Departments

Welcome	*Bewildering Stories* welcomes Jaleta Clegg, Shae Davidson, Robert E. Keller, and Byron Petrakis.
Challenge	Challenge 360 calls No Flag On the Play.
The Reading Room	Danielle L. Parker reviews Alastair Reynolds, The Prefect.
The Art Gallery	A randomly rotating selection of Bewildering Stories’ art NASA: Picture of the Day Earth Observatory Picture of the Day

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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