Aphelion Issue 294, Volume 28
May 2024
 
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Flash Fiction

March 2019


Ascension
by Paul Michael Moreau
There's something wrong with 564XE2.

My Dreams And Me
by Don Dussault
What's the dream, and who's the dreamer?

Pipe
by Denny E. Marshall
Be careful where you play, children!

Queen Of The Universe
by Logan Thrasher Collins
You have to be ruthless if you want to be omnipotent!

Yin and Yang
by Christopher T. Dabrowski
Be careful what you wish for

Zara
by Rekha Valliappan
If you go down to the woods today...

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Flash Fiction Challenges

Every month for almost ten years, we have run a 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 participants get two weeks to write a flash story based on the challenge guidelines. Then the members vote of the stories, rating them in six different categories. It's a great place to hone your writing skills, meet some fellow writers, receive some feedback, and possibly win a prize, or at least, bragging rights. Flash stories from all of our previous challenges are archived in the Flash Challenge Entries Index, which lists over 775 stories.

New participants are always welcome. Submissions for the contest are done through the forum. Just click 'Flash Challenge' button in the Navbar link on the left side of this screen, or go to the ’Fun And Games’ topic on the forums, to see what we're up to right now