Issue 301, Volume 28
December 2024 / January 2025

Issue 205 Volume 20 April 2016

Editorial

Dan L. Hollifield

The Senior Editor's usual rants about whatever…

Serials and Long Fiction

Winter In Ziegelberg
Agnieszka Halas
A young girl makes a desperate choice to buy her family out of poverty, and the consequences are worse than anything she could have imagined…

Short Stories

A Barbarian Enters the Bar
Beowulf Martinson
Not everyone lives how you would expect.

Caught in the Excess Zone
Charles E.J. Moulton
A father's love can make all the difference.

Switcheroo
C.E. Gee
If they could make the change, they might be happy.

The Alchemy of Oblivion
Glenn M. Diamond
Something bad was happening to the world… or was it nothing?

The Bar
Andrew Massey
If you could change one thing about your life, would you?

The Fittest
Jennifer Leeper
Cyrus would find a place where regular folk could live in peace, even if it meant going all the way to Mongolia.

Writer's Dreams
Patrik Centerwall
It coudn't possibly hurt to scribble a few ideas down.

Flash Fiction

Bodies
Walter Griffin

Botball Bollix
Penny Malveno

Flashback
C.E. Gee

My Head Is Like A Sieve
Gary Westlake

The Elevator
S.A. Grove

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.

Poetry and Filk Music

After Watching 'The Martian'
Jean Jones

Gaslight Ghoul
Alexis Child

The Diary of a Madman
Ron Larson

Earth Monkeys
Richard Tornello

Articles and features

Alas, there were no feature articles this month.