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

Elegant Slumming
Richard Tornello

What do you get when you add a deposed deity, a retired letter-agency hit-man and his handler, the New Jersey Mob, Italian cooking, and an unknown sci-fi writer who seems to know too much?

This.

You get this. Oh, and there's more. Have fun.

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Short Stories

The Analogue Haunting
David Baresch
"To Know The Unknown…" "

The Burning Man
Alexis Child
"One mistake can ruin a life…"

The Dead And The Damned
Timothy Wilkie
"The war had been going on for years, but their timing was perfect…"

The Eighth Death
Rodica Bretin
"Or, was it only a dream within a dream…"

Entangled Interests
Jack Freehoff
"The best-laid plans of mice and men…"

Fine-Tuned
Gegory Cioffi
"A little learning is a dangerous thing…"

The Kolbangara Incident
John E. DeLaughter
"Sometimes, you meet a commander who changes your life…"

Lead Wellies
Ken Foxe
"Life can be so hard, sometimes…"

Nothing Ever Happens
Sarah Katz
"It's alwaays the quiet ones…"

Strange Reality
Randy Stuart
"Most folks never notice how easy it is to wander from one timeline to another. Some of them wind up in very strange realities…"
A Writer's Challenge II Story

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Flash Fiction

Morning Shows The Day
Graham Andrews

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Poetry and Filk Music

Asterion Asks Michelangelo to Raise Him a Monument, Not the One Depicting His Polluted Love
Israel Okonji

A Time Lost in Rhyme
David Baresch

Cassandra, Daughter of Troy
Don Krieger

Crows
Michael Lee Johnson

Engineering
Simon MacCulloch

Keeping Up With The Zombies
Juan Manuel Perez

lost in twilight
ayaz daryl nielsen

Photographing Old Barns
G. Thomas Edwards

Purposes Incomprehensible and Wonderful As These Purposes
Robert Ronnow

Shared Reality
Kenneth Vincent Walker

The Crime
Amirah Al Wassif

We The Living
J. B. Hogan

When Confronted an Elder God
Jay Sturner

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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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