The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 424
| Novel | Jonas is pursued by a group of strange men who discover he does not officially exist. Jonas eludes them by hiding out in a snowy suburb at night. Ásgrímur Hartmannsson, Error, chapter 12 |
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| Novella | A district attorney’s alliance with vampires backfires when a case he is prosecuting goes wrong: Rene Barry, The Children of Arnborg: the Prophecy, chapter 1, part 1; part 2. |
| Serial | Air traffic control realizes there really is a replica of Ida Mae flying in the airlanes. What to do? Pass the buck to Homeland Security! Glenn Gray, A Day in the Cornfield, part 14. |
| Short Stories |
New contributor Donna Hole hands 10-year old Tommy a predicament. Tommy’s younger brother Peter is going to shoot a schoolyard bully: Two Minutes in Tomorrow, part 1; conclusion. Depite its name, the fairy soup can be quite tasty: Troy Morash, Metal, Bark and Whispers Soup. The android guardian angel Ariel wants emotions, but doesn’t she already have them? Richard Ong, On Broken Wings. New contributor Sherman Smith takes a group on a wine-tasting romp that includes Paris in the 1920’s: Mr. Nibs, part 1; conclusion. |
| Flash Fiction |
‘The Thousand Years Horror broke our brains so they can’t do anything; the interfaces make them work enough so we can stay alive but they hurt us. Especially when we think about certain things’: Harry Lang, His Knives Are Few and Small. Which would you prefer, an angel’s halo or a vegetative state? Ron Van Sweringen, In the Eye of the Beholder. |
| Poetry | Rebecca Lu Kiernan, Dogbye |
| Short Poetry |
Channie Greenberg, Spring Ahead Oonah V. Joslin, Armchair Observatory, December 7-9 |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes Donna Hole and Sherman Smith. |
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| Challenge |
Challenge 417 Response: Writing as Discovery Challenge 424: Tasting Time |
| The Art Gallery |
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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