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Issue 116 Volume 11 November 2007

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Editorial

Dan L. Hollifield

The Senior Editor's usual rants about whatever…


Serials and Novellas

Magic And The Heart
Part Four of Four
McCamy Taylor
Magic is easy. The human heart is much more difficult to master. This is what Prince Marc of Suunland discovers when he enlists the aid of a powerful magician —who was once his mother's lover— to help him find his younger brother who has disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
(Read Part One, Part Two, and Part Three here.)

Listening To The Words
Part Two of Two
Joseph Jordan
Tony wants to get David to the space station for a life-saving procedure. David wants to see outer space before he dies. A story about second chances and last wishes.
(Read Part One here.)

A Mobius Red
Neil Burlington
When a group of psychopathic killers are freed from their prison in the middle of nowhere, they are given the opportunity to start their lives anew. Sue Silvers is a killer with a grisly past who travels time and space only to find the most difficult challenge she will ever face is her own twisted nature.

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Short Stories

A Cleaned Clock
Jonathan Lowe
The world was a very different place after the Day of Enlightenment.

A Study in Silicon
McCamy Taylor
Dr. Susan Wier must work with Mycroft, the most advanced A.I. in North America, to solve the murder of the most successful clone of Babe Ruth. And that was the simple part of the assignment…

Aftermath
John Kendon
The war of succession was going well for Valdemar's forces. But noone understands why the most recent battle was decided by … a gardener.

Ambush
Robert Jarero
The Shidarians wanted the colonists from Earth gone, and they had somehow acquired the weapons to force the issue. But General Louis Macarthur had a few surprises in store…

Audience of One
John Hickman
One would think that First Contact with a sentient alien species would be unbeatable in the ratings, no matter how difficult and frustrating it turned out to be. But there was a bigger circus out there, so Roy felt free to bend the rules.

Cold Comfort: A Fa'teke Tale
Matthew A. Reed
Z'ack would risk everything to obtain the Ka'Rul crystals he needed to save Sa'Teel's life. He couldn't let her devotion to the forbidden Ba'Keel sect negate their friendship.

COLD LIGHT
E. S. Strout
Professor Paula Lynch was conducting a fairly routine experiment when the object appeared in her lab. Her life would never be the same after that.

Digisolution
Kyle Hemmings
Oolong lived on the crumbling boundary between so-called reality and the virtual world. Now someone or something was attacking one of his best —virtual— friends…

Every Single One
Robert W. Bertrand
Sodom and Gomorrah had nothing on the city that John and the Dead Man called home. But the Dead Man has had enough — it's housecleaning time, if John can supply a big enough broom. (Warning: Includes coarse language.)

Family Recipe
Robert Moriyama
Usually, the aromas from the various delicacies cooking in Avram Greenbaum's building were torture for a man trying to watch his weight. But this smell was different!

The Organist
Stephen H. Wallenfels
Marco is the top organlegger in the West, and a believer in old-fashioned Family values. He's a man of parts — other people's parts. That has never been a problem, until now. (Warning: Includes coarse language.)

Results of Forum Flash Challenge for October 2007

Congratulations to Mark Edgemon, winner of the October 2007 Forum Flash Fiction Challenge. Check out Mr. Edgemon's tale, He Must Kill The Children Before He Dies, and six more snack-sized morsels of twisty goodness (after you read and comment on our other fine features, of course)… And check the Fun and Games folder of the Forum around November 11th for another impossible mission in the Flash zone!

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Poetry and Filk Music

Beneath The Floorboards
Aurelio Lopez III

Bold Mary
A.K. Sykora

Cosmic Tricksters
Richard H. Fay

Forked In Itasca
Michael Lee Johnson

Lets Do It.
Richard Tornello

Pest Control
Stuart Sharp

The Mirror
James Matthew ers

Under Her Wing
Tom Palmer

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Articles and features

Sorry, but there are no feature articles this month. Do you have a book, cd or film review that you think would be interest to Aphelion readers? How about a convention report, or an essay? Send your non-fiction queries to features@aphelion-webzine.com.

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