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Issue 296 Volume 28 July 2024
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Editorial
Dan L. Hollifield
The Senior Editor's usual rants about whatever…
Serials and Long Fiction
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Short Stories
Miracle Men D. J. Rout
"When all things are possible, what are the challenges you set for yourself in life?"
Parting The Black
Hole Garrett Carroll
"Desperate times call for desparate measures…"
A Raven's Kiss Richard D.
Asplund Jr.
A Writer's Challenge II Story
"Hell opened up and spat out a hero… well—rather, it spat out a heroine…"
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Colors Timothy Wilkie
"You can't handle the truth…"
You Can’t Step In The Same River
Twice Rico Salvatore
"What if technology outpaces morality? It's been said that revenge is a dish best served cold…"
The Summoning Alexis Child
"Everything is a lesson…"
Dark Salvation Jonathan
Snyder
"There is always a price, for any action…"
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The Locks of Lodern Logan
Swartz
"The Warmth seeks its own…"
Porch Song Jim Wright
"Some fates are well and truly destined…"
The Indestructible Man Sarah
Katz
"It's turtles, all the way down…"
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Flash Fiction
Feast
Daniel Burnbridge
The cuisine of new worlds is always ...interesting!
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Evolution
Meghashri Dalvi
Your planet's evolution is intriguing, but flawed.
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The Ghost With A Gun
David Flynn
The things some people do for fun!
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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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