Aphelion Issue 301, Volume 28
December 2024 / January 2025
 
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Editorial

Dan L. Hollifield

The Senior Editor's usual rants about whatever…


Serials and Long Fiction

The Somewhat True Adventures Of Dorothy Quinn
Brian Spiess
It's a more dangerous and fantastic day than usual for the keeper of the adventure section of the New York Public Library.

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Short Stories

AEIOU
Ted Viciant
You'd better be confidant in your abilities when you put an AI in charge.

Augmented
Ishmael Soledad
This is the land of opportunity; if you're willing to compromise parts of yourself, of course.

Betrayal
John Powers
192 years takes you through a lot of history.

Break a Leg
Margaret Karmazin
Showbusiness is a wild ride, and she's ready to take it.

Hotel Robot
David Baresch
I caught my flight and in the sky I pondered on our future times and our lives in bed with passive machines - a nightmare or a dream?

Morning Starship
Paul Lubaczewski
Glam rock is dead, but Spif isn't.

Pandora's Return
Morten Stender
To see the world in an orb of glass/And heaven in a wild flower

Rosie's Revelation
Susan Anwin
The light of God isn't always what it may seem.

The Champion
C. E. Gee
I am at the twilight time of life.

The Spell-Broker's Death
Joshua Grasso
Sometimes you can feel your death.

The Real Taste of Darkness
Nikhil Kshirsagar
Are you prepared for the true taste of darkness?

The Rusalka's Embrace
Christopher Palmer
The sea is always the temperature of the sea and it's never too cold nor too warm for those such as me.

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Flash Fiction

Adventurer’s Contract
Chris Knoepfle
Negotiations with mages can get weird.

Trackers
Roger Ley
Following in your ancestors' footsteps can be tricky…

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

Hum Of The Spin
Denny E. Marshall

Lullaby of the Electronic Age
Maria DePaul

Seeing Double
Ron Larson

Viewing the Cloud Plain
Michael H. Brownstein

When the Future Comes
Jean Jones

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Articles and features

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