Issue 170, Volume 17 — February 2013
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Editorial
The Usual Rant from Aphelion's
Senior Editor:
In which the
Hardware Gods punish the Editor in
Chief for
being too, er, chiefly
Sorry, folks. Looks as if
there won't be an editorial. My
desktop monitor went dead on me and I can't finish or upload the
editorial. I can't get to the file through the household LAN because
the whole thing needs to be re-done. In trying to add a new computer to
the LAN, I screwed up the settings. I can't see the files on the
desktop computer to copy them to a USB stick, either. I'm on the
Netbook to send this message, but there's no way I can afford a new
monitor before the next Aphelion goes live.
So use this e-mail as my
editorial so I'm not slowing us down.
Murphy
wins another hand, it seems.
With regrets,
Dan
Long Fiction
Sugarhouse
By Adam "Bucho" Rodenberger
A psychological horror piece about a man with
amnesia who
can’t form new memories. By day, his wife tries to help him get better,
but each night he forgets all that he has learned the day before. Who
is the mystery girl who visits him each night, and what is her role in
his amnesia?
Short Stories
Grandpa's
Tale
By Ben Revermann
The young man visited his grandfather for two reasons: first,
because everybody else seemed to have forgotten the old man, now dying
from colon cancer; and second, because the relative quiet and slow pace
of the nursing home was a relief after the noise and chaos of the real
world. Grandpa's revelation of a long-held secret was a bonus.
Zip
Code 93949
By Richard Tornello
The unexpected guests arrived at Alex's little
bed-and-breakfast in Woodstock, New York with a handsome orange cat and
a flat-out gorgeous rebuilt Model A Ford truck. And the longer they
stayed, the weirder they seemed.
Seventh
Tower
By D. S. Tierney
Grint had robbed six of the Towers used as temples by the
priests of the Papality. He was a natural choice to lead a team into a
seventh Tower, in search of treasure. The niece and nephew of the man
who had hired him, and a demon in a human shell, on the other hand,
made no sense at all.
New
Weapons
By Mike Wilson
Patrick's secret invention was a weapon that not only
disintegrated its target, it scattered the atoms across time. Rob's
project was just intended to prove a hypothesis. The fact that it
displaced its target a huge distance in no time at all was just a side
effect. What were the two of them doing in the same small town? And why
did their paths keep crossing?
Here
Be Dragon
By Dave Weaver
Prince Cedric and his crew came to Honalee to deal with the
dragon that was terrorizing the people. He had his doubts about how
truly dangerous the beast was, but he had to carry out his duty as his
father's representative.
Poetry and Filk Music
Features
Thoughts
on Writing #44: You Brilliant Hack, You
By Seanan McGuire
In an ongoing series, 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. In this entry, she reminds us that a
working writer must find the balance between "artist" (whose work never
sells) and "hack" (whose work sells, but who may be embarrassed to
admit ownership).
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