Issue 297 Volume 28 August 2024

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Editorial

Dan L. Hollifield

The Senior Editor's usual rants about whatever…

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Serials and Long Fiction

The Line Paul A. Green Keron's new career had barely started when he found out it was all going to end …

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Short Stories

Doomesday Timothy Wilkie "You rang?" A Funny Thing Happened To Me… Randy Stuart A Writer's Challenge II Story "No event happens in isolation…" Below the Surface Margaret Karmazin "Life finds a way…"

Nightwalk Stefan Vucak "You can't escape forever…" Adventures in Science George Schaade "Adventure is where you find it. But be careful where you look…" Broomsticks And Brimstone Lǐ Kǎiláng A Writer's Challenge II Story "It's difficult to invent a new way to screw up, but somehow I managed it…" The Best Night Ever Ray Prew "Everything has consequences…"

The Grey Witch Of Yga Radoslav Radushev-Radus and George Petkov-Mareto "There is always a seed of truth…" The Yellow God Mehreen Ahmed "From out of the past…" Into Vast Silence Adam Parker "It's a tale as old as time…"

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Flash Fiction

The Relativity Abell 520 Restaurant Rico Salvatore WE CATER TO EVENT HORIZON PARTIES, one charge and no strings

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

Atomic Veil David Baresch Trifling Matter G. Thomas Edwards Family One Mark Gilbert

Spunking Island Terry Griffiths Almost Gone J. B. Hogan Confessions of a Vampire Jean Jones

Burn-out Simon MacCulloch Chupa-Ku, Volume XIX: No. 91-95 Juan Manuel Perez FROM: Anaximander, Nicaea, Lateran Council and Still Today Rico Salvatore

The Copper Vigil Meg Smith Two Hits Jamey Toner Hominids and Homonyms Kenneth Vincent Walker

Confessions of a Ghost
Amirah Al Wassif

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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!

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 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.

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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