The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 996
| Novels |
A well-known folkloric figure has serious questions about the use of his time. Charles C. Cole, Joe Avery
Chapter 12: Joe Avery Meets a Marathon Sleeper
Max has enountered some tough men in the course of his investigation. Now he meets and renews acquaintance with women who wield power quietly and effectively. Gary Inbinder, Phantom Point
Chapter 17: Eve
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| Novella |
Anne’s message to Marlow is cut short by the disaster at San Damien. The political lines are drawn between the Trad and Numen settlers of Mars. Brian Yapko, San Damien and the Red Daggers
Chapter 2: San Damien File: The Disaster
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| Short Stories |
At a remote facility of a water reclamation project in Florida, the night shift just can’t be lonely enough for Julius Dupree: Jeffrey Greene, The Dam Tender, part 1; conclusion |
| Flash Fiction |
The wrong address for one murder may be the right one for another: Gary Clifton, Two Birds With Two Stones |
| Poetry | Ron Sanders, Rabid Angel |
| Short Poetry |
Mike Acker, She, The Overstanding |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes |
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| Challenge | Challenge 996 # |
| The Reading Room |
Celine Rose Mariotti, The Atomic Soldiers excerpt |
| The Art Gallery |
Richard Ong, Raging Minotaur David Harris, Cellist Amid Swarms 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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