The Readers’ Guide
What’s in Issue 1086
| Short Stories |
New contributor David August recounts a ghostly reproach to a civil court judge who omitted important testimony in a school closing case during the Pandemic. Long-Term Effects, part 1; conclusion Captain Sheila and her First Mate, Karl, are thrown close together on their fishing trawler when an undersea earthquake creates a tsunami in the North Pacific. Michael Barley, Night of Whales. part 1; conclusion George notices that handheld communications devices seem to be causing their users to fade out of reality. Is it actually happening, or is there more to it? Matthew Harrison, Fade-Out A high-school student’s love for his music teacher lasts a lifetime. Richard Ong, Requiem for Mrs. Reed |
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| Flash Fiction |
Old high-school student clashes may not be resolved before graduation. What to do when a reminder of them comes in later years? Charles C. Cole, Time to Move On Time dilation in an interstellar voyage provides a warning tale about long-term investment in liquid assets. J. C. Miller, Negative Return |
| Poetry | New contributor Celestine Isleonor, My Heart’s Endurance |
| Short Poetry |
Crystalwizard, Pizza Dreams |
Departments
| Welcome | Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes David August and Celestine Isleonor. |
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| Challenge | Challenge 1086 finds that circumstances sometimes just plain get up and Circumdance. |
| The Art Gallery |
Channie Greenberg, Unanticipated Blockage Ron Sanders, Midnight Oil 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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