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Editorial

Dan L. Hollifield

The Senior Editor's usual rants about whatever…


Serials and Long Fiction

The Karcist
Jamie T. Murray
It doesn't pay to try to beat the devil at his own games.

The Best Long Fiction of the First Twenty Years

The story selected has been removed at the request of the author.

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Short Stories

Dip
Edmund Schluessel
Pocket Universe? Depends on who builds it…

Man of Iron
Rick Hannah
The Prince of Many Lands stood at the edge of the blasted earth and stared in awe.

Phase Shift
Roderick D. Turner
It is dangerous to pry too deeply into other people's secrets.

Reckoners of Clay and Flesh
David Sivier
Sometimes, everything hangs on a new discovery…

Ripper
C.E. Gee
London, 1888, The Autumn of Terror, and one name is on ever newspaper: Jack the Ripper. But even with the police forces of the largest city in the world, he was never apprehended.

Sparrow Killer
Lee Blevins
“The Doom of Finnan spread senseless and absolute.”

Sweet Peas
George Schaade
Plants can mutate when transferred to an alien environment. What would happen if…

Teenage Vampiric Crush
James J. Murphy III
She’s a good kid…they just grow up so quickly.

The Black Cumin Cure
Robin Ray
Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.

The Crows of Wentwood
George T. Philibin
Does DNA pass memories? Maybe!

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Flash Fiction

A Message from the Last Generation of Man
Gregory Cioffi
Logic can be a dangerous thing…

Inmate Astronauts
Denny E. Marshall
What happens when you turn interstellar space into a penal colony?

Passionate Blood
Hareendran Kallinkeel
Anil meets two cobras in a dark alley

Arise!
Iain Muir
You might say he was a little obsessive…

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.

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Poetry and Filk Music

All Succumb to the Cosmos
Maria DePaul

Haiku
Denny E. Marshall

The Murder of J. F. Sebastian
Jean Jones

The Con Game
Richard Tornello

One Summer Night
Ron Larson

Us
ayaz daryl nielsen

Supernatural Hippopotamus
Sebastian Popescu

The Best Poetry of the First Twenty Years
2013-2014

The Lost Art of Letter-Writing
Benjamin Blake

Second Contact
Thomas Reynolds

Robot Rust
Robin B. Lipinski

Let There Be Light!
Iain Muir and Mark Edgemon

The Unicorn in Captivity
J. Davidson Hero

After I Traded My Voice Box
April Salzano

Lawthorn Cemetery
Jay Hill

Judgement of the Dead
Jean Jones

The Vampire's Last Request
Ian Mullins

I'd Rather Be
Clinton Van Inman

From Fire, To Wheel, To Sky
Peter Adamakakis

MAVEN Haiku
Denny E Marshall

Hungry
Robin B. Lipinski

SciFaiku
Rafał Zabratyński

Invisible
Douglas Polk

To H. G. Wells
Perry L. Powell

At the Wheel
Richard H. Fay

Drip
Martin Tomlinson

What real horror is
Jean Jones

Black Umbrella Special
J.D. DeHart

Creature's Feast
Ed Sullivan

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Articles and features

The Best Mare Inebrium Tales from Our First Twenty Years

Never Friday
Greg Barozzi
"When the two Captains of the Silver Moon return to the Mare Inebrium, Max isn't very glad to see them. But they buy their way into Max's good graces with a large credit chip, and a sad story. After all, in the Mare Inebrium, a story to tell is as valuable as hard currency…"

Flash Crowd
Dan L. Hollifield, Bill Wolfe, Lester Curtis, J. Davidson Hero, and Jaimie Elliot
"Any cop can tell you that if you interview a dozen witnesses to a single crime, you'll wind up with a dozen different versions of what happened."

A Space War To End All Space Wars
Sergio Palumbo
"Wars can be fought on many fronts, using many different weapons. Sometimes, even the most paranoid of warriors forgets that wars don't always have only two sides."

Concerto For Spies
D. J. Rout
Of all the gin joints in all the worlds…