Aphelion Issue 301, Volume 28
December 2024 / January 2025
 
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Issue 226 Volume 22 March 2018

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Archives Editorial Serials and Long Fiction Poetry and Filk Music Short Stories Flash Fiction Features Series

Editorial

Dan L. Hollifield

The Senior Editor's usual rants about whatever…


Serials and Long Fiction

God Tears
By Milos Dumbraci
If we ever do meet a deity, will we be able to communicate with them? And, should we?

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Short Stories

A Jar of Whiskers
O. N. Boyd
A dog cop and a mage cop must stop a jewel thief with a dozen delicious glazed doughzels on the line.

Bloodbound
Grannd Kane
When it comes to revenge, vampiric immortality really, really helps.

Car Trouble
Kent Rosenberger
A hellish commute.

Imitation of Christ
David Flynn
Christ's return isn't as beautiful as it might seem.

Long Lost Friends
D. A Cairns
Class of ‘86’ all together at last!

Lost in Transition
Susan Anwin
Homeless life can be even more difficult when you have command of fire flowing in your veins.

Shackles and Chains
T. S. Kay and Jeff Huff
When you're feeling stressed and weighed down life, a song can really help cheer you up.

The Plague Wind
Travis Knight
It's a stormy night at sea for the Iron Rose

The Second-degree Out-of-body Experience
Marianne Resler
What would the criminal element do with certain technologies?

The Volunteer (The Movie)
David Rogers
Joe pressed enter and waited for the world to not end.

Vampire Moon
Graham Catt
Zeezar Boot and his jungle cat Wex embark on a hunt that ends up being more…sinister than at first glance.

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Flash Fiction

Family Crisis
Ron Guell
Our story begins in a wilderness caught in the grip of a harsh and scalding winter.

Trojan Truth
C. E. Gee
The real story behind the Trojan Wars

X-tra
Denny E. Marshall
It always pays to have a spare!

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

Google Maps, You Are Here
Richard Tornello

scifaiku
John Hawkhead

Eruptions On Io
Denny E. Marshall

The Evil Clergyman
Ron Larson

Supertrump, or 'Desire'
Sebastian Popescu

What is life?
Jean Jones

When The Pale Horse Came
Chastity Heather King

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Articles and features

Alas, there were no feature articles this month.