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

Business Model
Jason Arsenault
Two women investigate the secrets of a company's improbable success, and their findings are beyond anyone's expectations.

The Good Ship Munders
Alexander D Jones, Gareth D Jones and Haydn T A Jones
There's nothing like being Shanghaied for a deadly assignment.

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Short Stories

A Frog Pond In Time
Emad El-Din Aysha
A second honeymoon, exploring a different culture, in the least difficult way. Still, surprises can occur…

Boianai
by Martin Westlake
‘…nothing can be more fantastic than a natural phenomenon not yet recognised and classified by the human mind.’ Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, Neville Spearman Ltd., 1966

Dark Was The Night
Joe Jeffreys
Somewhere in the dark, cold reaches of space, something waits.

FaceGene
Barry Yedvobnick
"There's an app for that…"

The Prototypical Soldier
R L Schumacher
The implications of creating a prototype can have unanticipated consequences.

The Red, The Black, and The Gold
Jeremy Zentner
Life is hard on Ceres Station, even in the Gold Rush tavern…

The Yard Sale
Dave Crerand
You never know just what you're going to find…

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Flash Fiction

Den of the Drake
William Joseph Roberts

Spring-Child
Nicole Walsh

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

A Star's Signature
Meg Smith

Kissing the Corpse Goodbye
Alexis Child

Open Coffin
ayaz daryl nielsen

please
ayaz daryl nielsen

Quick Death Take Me!
Theresa C. Gaynord

The Day Arrives
Jean Jones

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Articles and features

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