Aphelion Issue 293, Volume 28
September 2023
 
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291 Volume 28 February 2024

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Back Issues Editorial Serials and Long Fiction Short Stories Flash Fiction Poetry and Filk Music Features Series

Editorial

Dan L. Hollifield

The Senior Editor's usual ravings about whatever…


Serialised stories and Long Fiction

Blood Will Out
By David Rudd

Jack had the chance to inherit power and wealth… he just didn't like the cost it would come with.

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Short Stories

A Pair In Love
Krista Farmer
"Endings are often beginnings…"

An Unusual Encounter
George Dimitriu
"Social Experiments will always be with us…"

Bond Of Lost Souls
Jason Selling
"Forgotten items always reek…"

Carmine Medusa
"Moon Pie"
"The quest to create the Ultimate Soldier was bound to suffer a few hickups along the way…"

Earthscraper
Murray Eiland
"What if, rather than trying to build homes on an already overcrowded planet, they could build them in a place with almost infinite real estate?"

Nasty
Michael Fernandes
TRIGGER WARNING! Violence, Adult Content.
"Ryan loved watching videos, loved collecting them…"

Sarah's Dilemma
Richard Tornello
"Isaac, if you’re reading this it means you are 21 years old and its time you learned the whole story about you, your dad, your uncles, and me…"

The Sunshine Men
Tom Hooke
"Some horrors are inescapable…"

The Treasure Of Dragons
Heather Dade
"Once upon a time…"

Unexplored Spaces
Angela Camak
"Danger is relative…"

Where The White Birds Fly
Timothy Wilkie
"Good is good and evil is evil. Or is it?"

From The Transcosmic Realm
Sergio ‘ente per ente’ Palumbo
A Mare Inebrium Story
"The Mare Inebrium attracted visitors from everywhere. Some traveled a whole lot further than others…"

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Flash Fiction

Give Me A Break!
Gary Shugar

I Want To Have a Name
Christopher T. Dabrowski

With the Best of Intentions
Martin Lochman

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Poetry and Filk Music

The Archipelago of Cats
Meg Smith

Beyond My Comprehension
Kenneth Vincent Walker

Chupa-Ku, Volume XVI & XVII: No. 76-85
Juan Manuel Perez

I Want You
Jean Jones

Insectile
Simon MacCulloch

My Confession
Richard Tornello

Some Questions
J. B. Hogan

The Crowded Bedroom
Gary Davis

The Dwarf
Lori R. Lopez

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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 may 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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