Issue 302 Volume 29 February 2025
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Editorial
Dan L. Hollifield
The Senior Editor's usual rants about whatever…
Serials and Long Fiction
From famine to fortune! This issue begins not one, but two long serials: Galaxy's Game in ten parts,
and Bad Manners in four parts! All at the same low price!
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Galaxy's Game, Part 1
Gareth D Jones
The protagonist trades gunfire on the first page, so wherever else this story goes, I don't think it will be boring.
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Bad Manners, Part
1
Randolph Stuart
A murder mystery in which many of the characters have nursery-rhyme names …
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Short Stories
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The Drake Equasion
Timothy Wilkie
"It had to happen sooner or later…"
Take Me Out To The Ball Game
Randy
Stuart
A Mare Inebrium Story
"It sounded like a good idea at the time…"
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Saving The Yacht Kittiwake
Robert H. Boder
"Stories of gods and unique animals under their control have beenwith us for thousands of years. Are gods necessary to protect
us fromevil beings, monsters and ourselves?…"
Skan
Sarah Katz
"What dreams are Made Of…"
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Hope Is Within Us
Jared Buck
"Lessons imparted by an evil Sorcerer are often painful…"
Curriculum Vitae
Denis Winston Brum
"It never pays to pad your résumé…"
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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 December 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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