Issue 295 Volume 28 June 2024
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Editorial
Dan L. Hollifield
The Senior Editor's usual rants about whatever…
Serials and Long FictionAlas, there was no new Long Fiction in this issue.
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Short Stories
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The Killer Doll and the
Dollmaker
S. Labrecque
With love, all things are possible…
The Darker Angels of Our Nature
Lǐ Kǎiláng
A Writer's Challenge II Story
In the back of every mind, a monster lurks- chained in the mind's dark recesses, kept away from the light of day for all
eternity… but chains can break…
Three Days Before
Foxy Li
A Writer's Challenge II Story
The barbarian chieftain filled the door of the crude, woven reed hut. After three days without food or drink, I could hardly lift
my head to look…
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Riding The Wave
Timothy Wilkie
With ultimate power comes ultimate responsibility…
Cher-Nobel
Gregory Cioffi
Nothing in life is ever free…
Games People Play
Randy Stuart
A Writer's Challenge II Story
You haven’t lived until you’ve had to outwit something that’s decided that you’d make a nice
snack…
A Perfect Fulfillment
Denis Winston Brum
Some things never change. Especially Customer Service…
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Black Water
Radoslav Radushev-Radus & George Petkov-Mareto
Satisfaction of curiosity comes at a cost…
Allure
Matthew J. Hampton
Beware the reasons for folklore and legends to exist…
Beneath the Wall
Sarah Katz
Giving meaning to differences is what destroys us. We did not survive terrors the world over just for your generation to battle
each other in the homeland…
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Flash Fiction
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Assemblage
Thomas Wells
SETI worked! Well, sort of…
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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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