Issue 277 Volume 26 October 2022
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Editorial
Dan L. Hollifield
The Senior Editor's usual rants about whatever…
Serials and Long Fiction
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Pillar of Smoke
John E. DeLaughter
An early Halloween gift: the most unusual zombie story I've ever read, and excellently written, to boot!
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Short Stories
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A Weekend Getaway
Mark Humphries
When you're birdwatching, there's nothing like the thrill of discovering a species you've never heard of before.
Nothing…
Brews from the World Tree
Seth Mullins
My teacher’s memorial was a small, quiet affair…
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The Puhsan Wildlife Refuge
John DeLaughter
As a visitor to this special place, you will be able to observe the Puhsan in their native habitat as they eat, sleep, engage in
courtship rituals, mate, and (if you are very lucky) maybe even as they give birth and raise their children…
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The Reviled
David Starobin
In life the Reviled had been a great warrior, anointed to knighthood under the banners of Chaos, its oath of fealty sworn to the
Black Prince Abaddon, Defiler of Kingdoms…
The Unnatural Law
Matthew Cunningham
She had formed a river between us, and we had swum together, even if only briefly. Our styles had been so alien to each other so
as to be barely recognisable as swimming, yet we had swam together nonetheless.
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Flash Fiction
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
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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!
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 October 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.
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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