The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 529
| Serial | The narrator visualizes horrific ghost stories. One day he meets a mysterious character, Udloob, who he suspects is an Oracle spy: George S. Karagiannis, The Ghost Profiler, part 4; part 5. |
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| Short Stories |
New contributor Alexandru I. Despina imagines what might befall someone whose memory becomes intermittent when affected by a strange machine: Beyond Lethe. Phillip confides a forbidden secret to Demarco, but he and Tanika can nonetheless take a trip to the Sun: K. C. Gray, Fire Park, part 1; conclusion. New contributor S. E. Sever shows that a holographic adjudicator must know and beware of the dark side of humanity when presiding in Kuiper Court. |
| Flash Fiction |
What is normal in one family may be strange in another, and an engaged couple need to know what they are getting into: Charles C. Cole, Final Gifts. Don’t cut up a prize vegetable just because it doesn’t win first prize: Arthur Mackeown, The Curse of the Prize Marrow. |
| Poetry |
Cristina-Monica Moldoveanu, Stripes and Dots John Stocks, Death in Transdanubia |
| Short Poetry |
Prospero E. Pulma, Jr., Night Flowers |
| Fictional Memoir |
If a practical joke gets out of hand, it may cause a family feud: Kumaar Pradhan, Blocked Progress, part 1; conclusion. |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes Alexandru I. Despina and S. E. Sever. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 529 invites you to Have a Hand. |
| The Art Gallery |
Raechel A. Gasparac, Wood, 1955 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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