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Editorial

Dan L. Hollifield

The Senior Editor's usual rants about whatever…


Serials and Long Fiction

The Last General
Grisha Syssoyev
Pride, ambition, and lust for power drive the decisions that will destroy a nation.

The Best Long Fiction of the First Twenty Years

The story selected has been removed at the request of the author.

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Short Stories

Service Call
Linda Phillips
Magic is easy. But fixing the cable?

The Man Who Broke Time
Susan Anwin
It’s so irritating when the antique store has a “you break it, you get tossed outside of time” policy.

The Potter
Dimitrije Medenica
Where is the divide between a craftsman and his work?

The Radical's Proposal
David Kavanaugh
A Grandpa and his Granddaughter chat about Earth’s fate over the Voyager space probe.

The Stampede of the Razor Deer
Walter Esselmann
Three friends must hunt, Pacifist-style. What does that even mean?

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Flash Fiction

Extra Ticket
Denny E. Marshall
Sometimes it pays to be nice to people.

It’s Delicious!
Ray Prew
It's tough being the new guy.

Repeating Mistakes
Thomas Wm. Hamilton
Those who will not learn from history…

Silence
Eleanor Taylor
The silence, that was new. It was new and complete and terrifying.

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

21.23676 Squared
Richard Tornello

Borders And Boarders
Richard Tornello

Haiku
Denny E. Marshall

Following
Will H. Blackwell Jr.

John Bates
Ron Larson

Lunar Caress
ayaz daryl nielsen

Meteorite
Sebastian Popescu

The Deadly Tree
Laila Hashem

The Vortex
Jean Jones

What it Means to Love in This Earth
Jean Jones

The Best Poetry of the First Twenty Years
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Pockmarked Teenagers
Eric Roth

Haiku
Denny E Marshall

Scifaiku
William Landis

Flying Saucers
Robin B. Lipinski

Devil in the Clock
Alexis Child

"not really now not any more"
Mandy Macdonald

Villanelle for H.P. Lovecraft
Neil Fulwood

To My Future Self
S. T. Eleu

Fenrir's Pain
Chastity King

The Vampire's Lament
Ray Prew

Liminality
Charlene Ashley Taylor

Ignite the System
Scott Thomas Outlar

Teh-Ima's Complaint
Richard Stevenson

The Admiral (Needs to Be Seen)
C. B. Droege

Earth Monkeys
Richard Tornello

I Am a Bot
Angelica Fuse

Gypsy Graveyard
Alexis Child

Lumbee Legend
William Landis

Haiku
Denny E. Marshall

Did I request thee, Maker, from my circuits to mould me Machine?
Daniel R. Jones

Spook
J. D. DeHart

Listen to Our Fellows' Screams
Debarun Sarkar

He's Right Behind You
Rob Wynne

Jesus Was Abducted
Ramona Thompson

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Articles and features

The Best Mare Inebrium Tales from Our First Twenty Years

Never Friday
Greg Barozzi
"When the two Captains of the Silver Moon return to the Mare Inebrium, Max isn't very glad to see them. But they buy their way into Max's good graces with a large credit chip, and a sad story. After all, in the Mare Inebrium, a story to tell is as valuable as hard currency…"

Flash Crowd
Dan L. Hollifield, Bill Wolfe, Lester Curtis, J. Davidson Hero, and Jaimie Elliot
"Any cop can tell you that if you interview a dozen witnesses to a single crime, you'll wind up with a dozen different versions of what happened."

A Space War To End All Space Wars
Sergio Palumbo
"Wars can be fought on many fronts, using many different weapons. Sometimes, even the most paranoid of warriors forgets that wars don't always have only two sides."

Concerto For Spies
D. J. Rout
Of all the gin joints in all the worlds…