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Editorial

Dan L. Hollifield

The Senior Editor's usual rants about whatever…


Serials and Long Fiction

Alas, there was no new Long Fiction in this issue.

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Short Stories

Alien Ordinance
Ed Sullivan
First Contact was never like this on Star Trek…

Deadly Curiosity
Dycen Alexander
No one, not even someone thousands of years old, likes to be ignored.

Immunity
E.S. Strout
If solutions to our problems were out there, would we still get them?

I Wish You Well
Chris Zazzaro
A delivery trip gone wrong ends up with drivers wanting more.

The Bad Seed
Ed Sullivan
Donnie was wrong in just about every way, and he hated Vermont, too.

The Flies
John Rovito
Asher drank too much and blew off the evacuation. Oops.

The Spider and Immortality
Zahid Zaman
Getting Tipsy is a bad, bad thing in this tale.

The Time Machine
Daniel Clausen
Love can reshape your universe.

The Veil
Michele Dutcher
On a frozen world, three chosen ones try to catch a 700 mph train.

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Flash Fiction

Dashes and Dots
Ed Sullivan
Project Anthropomorph gives Donald a new lease on life placing his mind in the body of a sailfish.

Last Minute Reflections on Human Nature
Ed Sullivan
A villain sends humanity a transmission which is both condemning and final.

The Port at Porto
Stuart Lenig
The dusky streets of Porto, Portugal harbor the intrigues of the undead.

Severities Should Be Dealt Out All at Once
David Ulnar-Slew
A terminal illness gives Eric the freedom to exact his revenge on anyone who ever wronged him.

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.

The title for May's challenge is "I Am Invincible." The contest started in the forum on May 1st. Click HERE to check it out. There is a $20 prize for the winner of this month's challenge provided by our anonymous patron.

Results of the Aphelion Flash Fiction Contest for April 2014

Congratulations to J. L. Haines, winner of the "Surviving the Ruined Earth" challenge. Click HERE to read her winning story, "We Were Once the Same as You," and seven other flash stories set in a distant future long after the fall of human civilization.

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Poetry and Filk Music

The Fall of Darkness
Martin Tomlinson

God Judges With Armies
Jean Jones

On Halloween Night
Denny E Marshall

Hungry
Robin B. Lipinski

Moonlit Oak Copse
Richard H. Fay

SciFaiku
Rafał Zabratyński

Nikki, Catnip Dreamer
Michael Lee Johnson

Protector
J.D. DeHart

Solar Being
ayaz daryl nielsen

Today's Don Juan
Richard Tornello

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Articles and features

A Word In Your Ear: Spoiler Etiquette in the Internet Age
Rob Wynne
Spoilers are a fact of life on the Internet, but they don't have to be an unpleasant one. It just requires a little finesse and a lot of courtesy.

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