Aphelion Issue 301, Volume 28
December 2024 / January 2025
 
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Issue 253 Volume 24 August 2020

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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 Magic of Maplewud
Rod Clark
Sent on a mission to dicover the nature of a unique artifact, Gem finds himself in possession of enormous power.

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Short Stories

Along Hatchetman Trail
Jackson Arthur
Do you like what you see?
Yes.
Yes, I did.

Bastet
Verona Jones
It's always a good idea to be nice to cats.

The Keeper
a. l. Dawson
Will Cain make the crossing?

The Roosterfish Pie of Ovas-9
Arto Koistinen
The place was a right backwater. It was also the only planet in the galaxy where you could still find true roosterfish.

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Flash Fiction

The Scarlet Character
Richard Tornello

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

This Night Has a Thousand Eyes
Alexis Child

A Walk With Dante
Jean Jones

Last Bulb in the Box
S. T. Eleu

The Death of Ophelia
Theresa C. Gaynord

Most Sheepish
Nikhil Kshirsagar

Darkest Shadows
Alexis Child

Are You For Real?
Jean Jones

Icebreaker #22
S. T. Eleu

Time is not Amenable
Theresa C. Gaynord

The Perseids
Meg Smith

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Articles and features

Alas, there were no feature articles this month.