Aphelion Issue 301, Volume 28
December 2024 / January 2025
 
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Serials & Long Fiction

The Dark Woods
By Randy Stuart

Sheriff Jim Wilkins already knew there were good cryptids. Now he has to deal with a bad one.

Best Of 2024

It wasn't my plan, readers, but I ran out of long fiction before I ran out of months this year. But to make up for it, here are the Year's Best. Enjoy!

Selected by Long Fiction Editor Lester Curtis

"It's Kind of Like That Planet in Alien 3"
By Steven Grogan
If you sometimes feel as though the world were all one big nuthouse, there may be a good reason …

Elegant Slumming
By Richard Tornello
What do you get when you add a deposed deity, a retired letter-agency hit-man and his handler, the New Jersey Mob, Italian cooking, and an unknown sci-fi writer who seems to know too much? This. You get this. Oh, and there's more. Have fun.

The Goatmen of Aguirra
By Joseph Carrabis
Sometimes the best way to understand an alien species is to become one of them—at the cost of your own family.