Aphelion

The story gets my attention in the first sentence. Nice use of words like–--Darra’s voice chimes with pleasure! Darra must be a witch or demon that lives off the life of others. With the reference to ‘inhale’ and ‘cool breath,’ I was reminded of the ‘Steam’ in Stephen King’s novel Doctor Wh o. I lik...

What a story! Tesla’s inner thoughts and feeling were propagated by the author’s knowledge of Tesla which he must have learned by reading the many articles about the scientist. The internal thoughts of Tesla in this story and the references to pigeons gives us a interesting story that might make a g...

Nice alien based story centered on bug-like aliens that need help. The intro grabbed my attention. The story unfolds with an encounter with the aliens, possibly some lies and some uncertain moments. When we do encounter aliens, their communication and understanding might be very remote from our conc...

Nice intro for it grabbed my attention and held it throughout the story. Loved the use of descriptive adjectives and the occasional adverb. Just enough and not a deluge. Good sensory input. At times I felt as if I were in the story. All the elements needed for good story telling are present in this ...

Reminds me of Edgar Allen Poe’s stories. It has been forty-five years since reading Poe and I can’t place exactly the story that this one reminds me of. I believe The Tall Tale Heart comes to mind but not exactly. The internal dialog, with its word chooses, sentence lengths and thoughts were excelle...

Maybe I should read this story again and study it like a chapter of literature. I don’t know but time----even being retired--- has its limits. Very descriptive and informative about the multi-culture interactions when marrying a mate from another culture. In this case a Muslin marred a Japanese girl...

Got mine in!

Well, it's the day after yesterday and I still can't get in! Some evil Hacker from the day after must have been waiting until our time caught up with him! And he has a smile carved into his face! Well, what do you expect from the year 2020? I'll be glad when it's yesteryear!

I can't get mine sent in. I'm not sure what happened, but I try a little later!

Reading the stories that Aphelion has every month is very good food for one's imagination. Different writers, different styles and different themes all mixed together contribute to creative thought! I've been busy with family problems and activates like bicycle riding, the stock market and singing w...

I'm finishing mine up. A little editing here and there yet! LOL

I liked this story from beginning to end. Arun lived in a totalitarian society, worked as a brewer but didn’t like it and wanted to do something else. That something else was forbidden! Arun wanted to be an artist, but art work had been outlawed. Yet, he drew pictures at night. The story follows the...

Nice into for it grabbed my attention. The story develops using good description and dialogue which held my interest. With a medieval setting one can be as creative as one wants to and this story shows creativity. All the characters came alive to me, and I could visualize their forms and their actio...

Managed to get one in this time. Too many family problems over the last three years, but fortunately things are starting to get better.

Got my vote in. Between two stories, I had a very difficult deciding.

I sent mine in before the deadline yet already the stories were posted!

Happy Easter everyone! Read Stephen King's Dr Sleep . Been viewing some of Issac Asimov's interviews from past years---he was truly ahead of his time. Haven't left the house in about a week; however I've been catching up with some books and rereading others. Ernest Dimnet's The Art Of Thinking is al...

We should do something. Aphelion shines bright and will continue to in the future, I'm sure. I'll try to get more involved -----had many family problems over the last three years, but things are settling down now. I don't know. It would be nice if all of us could someday get together, but with this ...

Thanks Lester again--you're a real asset to Aphelion.

Got my vote in!

This story for some reason reminds me of The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway. Maybe because Christian wasn’t catching fish much anymore and had to venture into Triton Bay. There, he catches something very unexpected. Christian’s thoughts and feelings come forth throughout the story and the more we ...

Good beginning for it got my attention a held it. This story is action from beginning to end set in a Sword and Sorcery type genre. Elegance the male, and Beauty the female, enter a tunnel aligned with mirrors in order to find the Alterer, a devise that will change metabolism. Once in the tunnel, th...

Mars! So many stories about Mars lately. I wrote one a few years back, and I love to read and write Mars stories and look at movies about landing there and finding aliens. The Angry Red Plane t still sticks in my mind. I saw that movie in 1961 or 62 at a theater called The Lyric. It was just 25 cent...

I'll try to get one in, but I'm in the process of moving. It's a hassle believe me. We needed a house on one floor---my wife can't climb steps anymore--and I found one not too far.

Congrats Jon!

I'll try one. I never entered the dungeons of Sword and Sorcery, but it might be fun!

Congrats. That was a good one!

A very descriptive story set in a monastery of old. The internal thoughts and conflicts of Br. Thomas are the driving force behind this story which borders on the life of a monk. His cell, and the other brothers which are fewer now that ever, and his duties as a scribe all add to the description of ...

What an interesting story! Loved it from beginning to end! We have a typical Halloween tale in this one with a scarecrow on a farm that is naturally evil as would be expected for a Halloween tale! The story intensely held my interests from beginning to the end. I couldn’t stop reading it and I must ...

I like how the voting is going: 0,1,2,3! LOL