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Issue 274 Volume 26 July 2022

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Editorial

Dan L. Hollifield

The Senior Editor's usual rants about whatever…


Serials and Long Fiction

Outstairs Bound
Rod Clark
Just because Gem had a powerful genie at his command didn't mean he wouldn't still be in trouble on Urth…

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Short Stories

A Thousand Wings
Joel Doonan
Sometimes, we get by with a little help from our friends…

The Captive
Rachel Bolton
No one suffers captivity—even the best intentioned captivity—without resenting it…

Regenerator
J. B. Polk
Even benevolent monsters have to be fed…

Breadcrumbs
John E. DeLaughter
It's easy to get lost. The trick is to figure out HOW you got lost so that you can find your way back again…

Ultimate Divinity
George Schaade
Nobody is perfect. Even Gods can lose Their way…

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Flash Fiction

Hello Darkness My Old Friend
Alexis Child

Love at First Sight
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

Blade of Desecration
Alexis Child

Five Brief Poems
ayaz daryl nielsen

Gilded by Forbidden Love
Theresa C. Gaynord

The Abyss
Colette

The Ray Crater
Meg Smith

Metaphysical (Me)
Kenneth Vincent Walker

Thinking of you after watching Dracula again
Jean Jones

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Articles and features

Streaming Chat Shows

At the links below you can find archives of the live-streaming chat shows run by the Director of HallowCon and myself. WARNING: Contains Language!

Stupid O'Clock

Showrunner: Joe McKeel

This show is best described as a group of friends hanging out at a science fiction/fandom convention in the hotel lobby/bar and chatting with everyone that walks up. We July even have a guest or two. We start out with no topic. We spend two hours chatting and reading comments. Many times we never know what we will talk about but we cover many topics. Many times a viewer tosses out a comments and we will chase it down the rabbit hole.

But rest assured we had fun and hopefully you do too.

Brought to you by Hallowcon, Stupid O'clock, and Rising Tide Productions.

Last Man Standing

Showrunner: Dan L. Hollifield

A late night, after-hours chat show. The guests featured are SF&F writers, artists, musicians, comic book creators, SMOFs, and members of fandom in general.

Usually, It either starts off slow and boring and picks up speed as guests join in, or it continues on at full speed from whatever discussion was in progress on Stupid O'clock when that show ended. This thing can go on for hours once it gets rolling. Guests are welcome to join at any time, but trolls will be punted for field goals. The content is somewhat PG, or even more adult, but is intended to be entertainment for reasonably adult audiences.

Brought to you by Aphelion Webzine, Hallowcon, Stupid O'clock, and Rising Tide Productions.

All music composed and copyrighted by Dan L. Hollifield, 2022.

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