Issue 300 Volume 28 November 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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The Dark Woods
Randy Stuart
Sheriff Jim Wilkins already knew there were good cryptids. Now he has to deal with a bad one.
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Short Stories
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The Phantom of the Bridge
Randy Stuart
"One man's curse is another person's blessing…"
Dragon's Dance
Nāsrīn, Zhūgě
"I used to be just another job. Then, things changed…"
Feels Like Fire
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Donna Carlene
"Strange matter, indeed…"
The Florida Vampire Hunters
D.J. Rout
"The family that slays together, stays together…"
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Hot/Cold War
Thomas Wm Hamilton
"It was some kind of warning, but why?"
Monster Maketh the Man
Richard D. Asplund Jr.
"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."
A Writer's Challenge II Story
Performance Anxiety
Dan L. Hollifield
"Working for the spooks in the '60s was a bit weird, but it could have its perks…"
A Tom Darby Story
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1001 Ways to Screw Up
Joe Bachman
"Some people could break an anvil…"
A Writer's Challenge II Story
The Subjugation of Jeff
Lǐ Kǎiláng
"Heroes come in the strangest of forms…"
Tithonus
Gregory Cioffi
"What if mortality was no longer an option? How would society change then?"
Too Late For The Stars
Timothy Wilkie
"Back to the dark shore of the Rainbow Sea where fireflies of light played in color all around me…"
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Flash Fiction
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 November 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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