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Editorial

Dan L. Hollifield

The Senior Editor's usual rants about whatever…


Serials and Novellas

The Gulf of Eden — Part Three
McCamy Taylor
The conclusion to the epic tale of Isaac's mission to negotiate peace with the Elect on the planet that both races claim as their property.
Part One | Part Two

Program Orange
Dale Carothers
Jadie needs a job and the Crabs need someone to retrieve a precious artifact. Too bad it is on a world infested with dangerous monsters. However, modern science has an answer for everything.

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Short Stories

Are We There Yet?
Richard Tornello
The entity called "Him" never set out to be God, but when he finally found a follower, the fellow insisted that he must be.


Beauregard's Bodacious Barbeque and Ballistic Banking
Coffee Anderson
With the world falling apart, sometimes some really good barbecue is worth its weight in — gold?

Blue Sky
jaimie l. elliott
Osmond had suffered a terrible loss, but somehow, the world seemed blind to it…


Faux Pair
Patrick Welch
Apprentice thief Brendell was elated to be given an important assignment the moment he arrived in Perlenz. There was, of course, a catch — no one who had attempted the job in the past had returned.

In Any Language
Jeani Rector
Henry had deserted his comrades in the brutal War Between the States in the hopes of finding peace. But a coward dies a thousand deaths — one way or another.

Incarnation
E. W. Bonadio
The War On Terror had brought the U.S. Army Rangers to the Arabian Gulf to help an Egyptian Army clean up after a cruise missile strike. Of course, "terror" hadn't always meant suicide bombers and hostage taking.

The Gory Pearl of Doom
Gary W. Feather
Lady Jin and her student, One-Eyed Nu, had been sent to eliminate the notorious fighter Snake-Eye — once Lady Jin's lover. Snake-Eye's master had other ideas. (For fans of wu xia…)

The Neighbors
Lee Gimenez
The Tors were — strange, Harold said. Too blond, too fit, with accents he couldn't quite identify… And what the hell were they doing carrying odd bundles out of the house at 3 AM?

The Pen Is Mightier
Larissa March
Amy refused to own a TV. Those things couldn't stimulate your imagination the way a good book — or even a trasy gothic romance novel — could.

Time Loop
Tony Coles
It started with what Jones thought was a very large, very persistent mosquito circling his bed. Then the wall to the spare room started to glow…

February-April 2009 Forum Challenge

Congratulations to Richard Tornello and Nate Kailhofer, co-winners of the "Spaceman's Birthday" Forum Flash Challenge. Check out Richard's entry Phoenix and Nate's Always and four more celebrations-in-a-tin-can — after you have read and commented on our other stories, novellas, poetry, and features, of course. (These stories will all eventually appear — possibly in expanded form? — in future editions of Aphelion, but if you read them now, you can say "I knew them when…")

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Poetry and Filk Music

Labyrinthine Pile
Richard H. Fay

Nonverbal
Richard Tornello

SciFaiku
William Landis

Glimpses Of The Folk
Stuart Sharp

Metamorphosis
J. B. Hogan

The Black Watch Cap
Bob Brill

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Articles and features

Thoughts on Writing #8: God Made The Mosquito
Seanan McGuire
Seanan McGuire takes apart the engine of writing to find out how it works, and offers her insights into how to put it back together again.

Praise for Dark Horse
McCamy Taylor
Our Serials and Novellas Editor congratulates comics publisher Dark Horse (home of many series based on popular movie and TV franchises) for making several important "grown-up" manga series available to U.S. readers. What have you been missing? Check it out.

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