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December 2024 / January 2025

Issue 190 Volume 18 November 2014

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.

Short Stories

Anything
J E Deegan
Carnival justice is swift, and final.

Bigfoot Station
Franklin Klavon
The brochure promised they would see one bigfoot. It was wrong.

Breach
Roderick D. Turner
Caroline was dropped, unaware, into the middle of a battle. If only she wasn't naked…

Covenants
Frederick Foote
Beware gifts, especially when the "gift" is an extremely attractive, competant woman.

Fire from the Sky
R.J. Drury
Trapped in ancient history, Dr. Cardinal tries to save the future.

Psi Language
George Schaade
All their efforts to communicate with the aliens had failed, so they were finally willing to let Judith give it a try.

The Comedown
Craig Steven
You're dead, so march!

Flash Fiction

The Tide Turns
Dionisio “Don” Traverso Jr.
Who the monster is depends on your vantage point.

FUGLY
Lela Marie De La Garza
Not every fairy tale is for the beautiful people.

Spider
Botond Teklesz
Sometimes big troubles can be the smallest things.

One For Sorrow
Ed Sullivan
Letting go sometimes takes another step.

DRABBLES & 55's - NEW SECTION

Do Not Get High
Denny E. Marshall

Library of Alexandria
Martin Tomlinson

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.

Results of the Aphelion Flash Fiction Contest for October 2014

Congratulations to Winner Michele "BottomDweller" Dutcher, winner of the “Campfire Games: In the beginning Light, in the end Darkness” Challenge. Click HERE to read the winning story "The Altar" and the other excellent work this month.

Poetry and Filk Music

Alien Trash
Robin B. Lipinski

Evolution 1
Vaibhav Mukim

Is the Sea a Graveyard?
Jean Jones

Living in a Centrifuge
Richard Tornello

Haiku
Denny E Marshall

No End
Ian Mullins

Sci(na)ku
Martin Tomlinson

Waggish
J. D. DeHart

Articles and features

Alas, there were no feature articles this month.