Issue 184 Volume 18 May 2014
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Editorial
Dan L. Hollifield
The Senior Editor's usual rants about whatever…
Serials and Long Fiction
Alas, there was no new Long Fiction in this issue.
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Short Stories
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Alien Ordinance
Ed Sullivan
First Contact was never like this on Star Trek…
Deadly Curiosity
Dycen
Alexander
No one, not even someone thousands of years old, likes to be ignored.
Immunity
E.S. Strout
If solutions to our problems were out there, would we still get them?
I Wish You Well
Chris Zazzaro
A delivery trip gone wrong ends up with drivers wanting more.
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The Bad Seed
Ed Sullivan
Donnie was wrong in just about every way, and he hated Vermont, too.
The Flies
John Rovito
Asher drank too much and blew off the evacuation. Oops.
The Spider and Immortality
Zahid Zaman
Getting Tipsy is a bad, bad thing in this tale.
The Time Machine
Daniel
Clausen
Love can reshape your universe.
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The Veil
Michele Dutcher
On a frozen world, three chosen ones try to catch a 700 mph train.
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Flash Fiction
The Aphelion Flash Fiction Contest
We run a monthly flash fiction contest in the "Fun and Games" folder in Aphelion's forum. In the contest we
post a challenge with a specific theme and genre and participants write a flash story based on the challenge guidelines. The contest is a
great place to hone your writing skills, meet some fellow writers, receive some feedback, and possibly win a prize. New participants are
always welcome. Submissions for the contest are done through the forum. Flash stories from all of our previous contest challenges are
archived in the forum as well.
Over 500 stories are included in our archive. To start reading some of these great flash stories, check out either
Index 1 or Index 2.
The title for May's challenge is "I Am Invincible." The contest started in the forum on May 1st. Click
HERE to check it out. There is a $20 prize for
the winner of this month's challenge provided by our anonymous patron.
Results of the Aphelion Flash Fiction Contest for April 2014
Congratulations to J. L. Haines, winner of the "Surviving the Ruined Earth" challenge. Click HERE to read her winning story, "We Were Once the Same as
You," and seven other flash stories set in a distant future long after the fall of human civilization.
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