The Readers’ Guide

What’s in Issue 387

Novel	Alex is holding hostages, and he makes O’Leary an offer he has to refuse. O’Leary will have to make amends to Ernie; the old server bomber is now on the side of the law: Karlos Allen, Rusted Chrome Day 7, part 1; part 2; part 3
Serial	The Captain bravely defends Varus and Penel, but the Sixteenth Queen appears and makes an impossible demand: Resha Caner, Dark World, part 3; part 4; part 5
Short Stories	How is it possible to explain a ‘locked-room mystery’ in which a bird is the culprit? That may be the least weird thing that’s happening: Tantra Bensko, Inside Recursive Glass-Blown Rooms of Explosive Truth. Do you think school days are not what they used to be? Just wait till you see what tomorrow’s “blackboard jungle” has in store for teachers: Phillip Donnelly, The Interactive Classroom. New contributor Terry Hamel pits Tyrane against Lysak in a revenge fantasy that begins and ends in the Pit of Sorrows. New contributor Greg Mazurkiewicz introduces inventor Ralph Weatherby, who might be best advised to settle for less than his dreams: Sweet Dreams.
Flash Fiction	New contributor Salvatore Buttaci depicts an ultimate conflict in affirmation of the age-old wisdom “Make love, not war”: Behold, a Pale Horse. New contributor Daniel VanTassel portrays a man who knows all too well a woman who entices men only to give them their Walking Papers.
Poetry	Michael Murry, The Good Ship Memory Hole
Short Poetry	Oonah V. Joslin, Spring Song Rebecca Lu Kiernan, How to Love Her

Departments

Welcome	*Bewildering Stories* welcomes Salvatore Buttaci, Terry Hamel, Greg Mazurkiewicz, and Daniel VanTassel.
Challenge	Challenge 387 sings of Spring’s Promise, Spring’s End.
The Reading Room	Sarah-Jane Lehoux, Thief, excerpt
The Art Gallery	A randomly rotating selection of Bewildering Stories’ art NASA: Picture of the Day Earth Observatory Picture of the Day Our Earth as Art

Randomly selected Bewildering motto:

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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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