Aphelion Issue 301, Volume 28
December 2024 / January 2025
 
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Flash Fiction
Poetry
Features
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Issue 260 Volume 25 April 2021

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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

Memory Songs
A.J. Padilla
Humans successfully colonized Mars, and now they'll never be the same again.

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Short Stories

The Elves of Tierra Del Fuego
Tracy Shew
This is the ultimate nightmare fate for an elf.

Orange
Dan Cardoza
Dr. Benjamin B. Forsythe was an odd scoop of ice cream, a cold, pasty sheened dour sort.

Dead Forest
David Baresch
Author's note: ‘Dead Forest’ tells of one tree in a forest of a reported 70,000 pines that remained standing after a tsunami felled all other trees on the coast Rikuzen-Takata, Japan, on March 11th 2011.

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Flash Fiction

The Couple
Nikhil Kshirsagar

In The Closet
Christopher T. Dabrowski

Insomnia
Christopher T. Dabrowski

Prisoner
Christopher T. Dabrowski

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

Castle Keep
Lori R. Lopez

Cétshamhain - Empress of Stone
Theresa C. Gaynord

Gilded Forbidden Love
Theresa C. Gaynord

Next Door
Andrew Dunn

A Comet in Spring
Meg Smith

The Void
Ralph Monday

Todd Henry
Cindy Kovacik

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Articles and features

Alas, there were no feature articles this month.