Issue 186 Volume 18 July 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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Captain Pops
J. Eckert Lytle
Being the best at what you do can cost you everything.
GPS
Anthony R. Pezzula
Do those fancy gadgets really get you there better?
Playing God
Stephen Faulkner
She thought it was just one of Jared's silly notions. She was wrong.
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Robot Soliloquy
J. Eckert
Lytle
The crash deprived it of its programming and left it to consider something it never had: what it wanted for itself.
Seepage
Roderick D. Turner
Reality leaks into this frightened lawyer's life.
Test Run
Dan Hollifield
In the great age of steam, many explorers and inventors used fantastic machines to further mankind's knowledge of the
unexplored areas of planet Earth. As a test of one such mighty machine, a group of British explorers decide to cross the US in their
experimental device. The year is 1895, the mission is to test the machine in a somewhat civilized area before taking it to Africa and
South America to explore the darkest of Dark Continents. The wilds of the United States seem to be the best proving ground for
Maxwell Jones' invention—The mighty vehicle AXEE, the Ambulatory eXoskeletal Exploratory Engine…
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Flash Fiction
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Chylomicron
Ed Sullivan
A drug designed to create super-soldiers turns people into god-like gladiators, but there's one drawback…
Dressed To Kill
David
Ulnar-Slew
You know those old adages: dress for the job you want and dress for success? Well, those apply too, especially when you're
dressed to kill.
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Infinity
Botond Teklesz
The computer was asleep. It slept twenty hours a day. But when it was awake…
Obsession
Rachel Gardner
The same diner, the same menu, the same waitress, every detail exactly the same, just like the twenty-seven previous times I
tried…
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Unbearable
Ed Sullivan
It was a simple mission. They were supposed to land on the planet and retrieve some samples. Yah, that always goes
well…
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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.
July's challenge is The Two Heads Laugh Better Than One/ The contest started in the forum on July 5th. Click HERE to check it out. There is a $60 prize for the
winner of this month's contest provided jointly by our anonymous patron and I. Verse, the winner of the last two flash contests.
Results of the Aphelion Flash Fiction Contest for June 2014
Congratulations to I. Verse, winner of the Scheherazade 7 Challenge. Click HERE to read his winning story, "The
Three Onion-Pears of Alpha-Centauri," and five other flash stories about the robotic storyteller Scheherazade 7.
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Poetry and Filk Music
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Articles and features
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Sha'Daa Pawns
A review by Dan Hollifield
A look at a collection of short stories by Michael H. Hanson.
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