Aphelion

Welcome to the Monkey House.

I hope you will read the stories and the comments (and add your .02 credits worth), and eventually throw a shrimp or two on the barbie (i.e., submit your work to the editorial torture chambers). Check out our Guidelines before you submit anything -- we can't publish stories featuring copyrighted / trademarked characters or ships (or shoes or sealing-wax, cabbages, kings, etc.) or terms (like BOLO) lest the wrath of the Copyright Police fall upon our impoverished heads. Eventually you will want to branch out from emulating your favorite author(s) and the world(s) they write about ...

Robert M.

Hello, and welcome.

If you're ever interesting in trying something new, but don't want to invest a lot of time in another genre, there's always the monthly flash challenges in the Fun and Games folder. Never over a thousand words (yet, anyway).

It's usually a different genre each month, and also tries to help hone a different writing skill every time. It helps keep creativity flowing. Free and open to anyone. * End Commercial *

Seriously, though, welcome aboard. Please feel free to comment on the stories in the issues. All authors crave feedback like it was crack, any feedback. Really. Any.

You could make somebody's day, and they just might return the favor when you're in the issue.

Nate