The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 799
| Novella |
Kelvin and Jimmy plot some special plays for the high-school football team’s practice sessions. Kelvin warns April about Sterling, but he has to tell their father, as well: J. C. G. Goelz, Responsibilities of Being a Man, part 3; part 4. |
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| Short Stories |
In the world of print publishing, authors and works can become inextricably intertwined:
Channie Greenberg, Owen Brownstone Keeps Trying. New contributor Vanessa Kittle reveals some surprising features of Artificial Intelligences’ workaday life in The Shining World, part 1; conclusion. A status tends to remain “quo” when everybody benefits in some way: Ronald Larsen, Nicholas Chichester. |
| Flash Fiction |
What to do with a dilapidated museum piece when it may be the last of its kind? Joyce Meggett, In and Out of the Knickknackatorium. |
| Poetry | Robin Helweg-Larsen, Humankind at Dusk |
| Short Poetry |
Oonah V. Joslin, Level Carbon |
| Essay | Gary Beck, Raw Realism: A Poetry Manifesto |
Departments
| Translation |
Paul Celan, Death Fugue — Todesfuge tr. by New contributor Michael R. Burch |
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| Welcome | Bewildering Stories welcomes Michael R. Burch and Vanessa Kittle. |
| Challenge | Challenge 799 wants to Bring Back the Dodo. |
| Letters | Alison McBain interviews Richard Ong. |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Enchantress of Books 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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