Aphelion Issue 301, Volume 28
December 2024 / January 2025
 
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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

Virgins, Riding Bareback
Patrick Honovich
Tom and Molly wanted to start a new life for themselves, but the journey wasn't easy. There were family and inter-clan politics, a frustrated suitor… and an aelecorran.

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Short Stories

All Fun And Games
Wes Vanderburgh
"People get all excited when a new game is released…"

Creatures Of Another Sun
Timothy Wilkie
"The truth of the multiverse was that black was not always black and white was not always white…"

Dizzy, But No Wormhole
Geoff Nelder
"Memory is a fickle thing…"

Me
Steve Grogan
"Why me?"

The Better Tooth
Paul Cesarini
"Beware of Dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup…"

The Eyes
David Flynn
"Tommy was haunted…"

The Heart Beneath the Soil and the Water
J. M. Cyrus
"The first time she felt the heartbeat was a shock…"

The Last Active: Major Tom: 2084
David Baresch
"To venture amid the sparkle of starlight, to lose one’s way, to drift alone throughout the vastness of the galaxy, to ready for nothing else other than demise. But, to find one’s home after 100 years of nothingness. Will all be all as it once was? And is the Major really home? "

The Robber Witch
Murray Eiland
"Sometimes, it takes a thief…"

The Weirdness of Reality
Joe Bachman
"Most people never notice the weirdness all around them…"
A Writer's Challenge II Story

Very Practical Effects
Jennifer Kennett
"No Matter what business you're in, there are always Divas…"

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Flash Fiction

Secret Service Training - 1870
Dan L. Hollifield

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Poetry and Filk Music

Alien Eyes
Kenneth Vincent Walker

dancing
ayaz daryl nielsen

In This Floating Mega City
Petrouchka Alexieva

Tlacatlaolli/Pozole
Juan Manuel Perez

Like Zen
Michael Lee Johnson

Not a Writer
Jay Sturner

Photographic Proof
G. O. Clark

Planet of Wasps
Meg Smith

I Wish
by Jean Jones

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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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