Aphelion Issue 301, Volume 28
December 2024 / January 2025
 
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Flash Fiction
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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

The Fist of God
Bogdan Stevenson
Vanity of vanities…

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Short Stories

Darren and The Dark Lord
Daniel South
What happens when the villain wins everything they ever wanted?

Forgotten Girl
J. Nichols
We're all mad here.

Martha
Amanda Todisco
Martha existed merely for that: to exist.

Silver Scream
Kent Rosenberger
Immortalized in film, the Golden Age stars and starlets aren't as gone as they seem.

The Will to Live
Tomasz Jarząb
Get ready…eternity lies before us.

There Was Once A Disposable Man…
Dan L. Hollifield
A Tom Darby Story
I was never good at much of anything beyond surviving. But I was damned good at that!

Poker Face
William Joseph Roberts
A Mare Inebrium Story
Trae and Fergus find that there are more than a few small challenges to establishing themselves as interstellar traders…

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Flash Fiction

Christmas
Christopher T. Dabrowski
Some questions are better not answered

Grid
S.F. Katz
Bot attacks can't handle humanity. Yet.

Hand In Hand
Ramon F. Irizarri
Annette almost took offense at the aliens lack of complexity.

Surgery
Christopher T. Dabrowski
And Prometheus was bound to a rock…

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

As Time Goes Bye
Sebastian Popescu

Chatterman
Scott Hughes

Good Hunting
ayaz daryl nielsen

Ra’s Mistake
Coleman Bomar

The last thing I saw
Will H Blackwell, Jr.

The moon will absolve you
Meg Smith

Whisper of the Stars
Alexis Child

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Articles and features

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