Short Fiction: Light Like Knives Dragged Across the Skin

by Paul Jessup
April 2008

The horrors of playing a collectible card game.

Short Fiction: A Handful of Pearls

by Beth Bernobich
March 2008

Subversive evil exists everywhere…even in paradise.

Short Fiction: Twelve-A

by Sarah King
February 2008

Sara King is our featured writer for the month of February. She’s from Alaska, writes dark SF, and is a big-shot editor at Aberrant Dreams.

Short Fiction: Flash of Light

by Jason Sizemore
February 2008

A bit of post-traumatic syndrome from Apex editor Jason Sizemore.

Interview - Jeremy Shipp

February 2008

Jeremy discusses his well-received first novel Vacation.

Interview - Sara King

February 2008

Apex editor Jodi Lee discusses the finer points of living in the remote lands of Alaska with Ms. King.

Interview - David Wong

February 2008

An interrogation of the author of the hilarious novel John Dies at the End.

Short Fiction: The Dead Man and the Berserk

by Matt Wallace
January 2008

The club is called Bazard and the old brick building doesn’t want it.

Short Fiction: Post Apocalypse

by James Walton Langolf
January 2008

The letter came on Tuesday marked “Post Apocalypse.”

Short Fiction: Under the Dryer

by Fran Friel
December 2007

I tried to warn them, but the humans wouldn’t listen and the cats just taunted me.

Not Flesh Nor Feathers - Chapter 1

by Cherie Priest
December 2007

The Tennessee River has swollen again, and nothing stops it.

Short Fiction: Horizontal Rain

by Mary Robinette Kowal
April 2007

A chilling classic set in Iceland.

Short Fiction: Crosses

by Daniel Kaysen
September 2006

The thread of life can be such a fragile thing.

Wings to the Kingdom - Chapter 1

by Cherie Priest
August 2006

The first time it happened—the first time anyone admits to it, anyway—was at a Decoration Day picnic being held at the battlefield at Chickamauga, Georgia.

Short Fiction: Seven Wives

by Bryn Sparks
July 2006

Class struggles and a duel in this inventive dark SF work by our favorite Kiwi.

Short Fiction: Skin

by Scott Nicholson
June 2006

Nicholson gives a glimpse into the torture of being a burn victim.

Short Fiction: Only Springtime When She’s Gone

by Eugie Foster
May 2006

Here’s a classic story of future obsession.

Short Fiction: The Heavens Fall

by S. Andrew Swann
April 2006

Victims unwittingly get their revenge.

Short Fiction: Clone Barbecue

by Jennifer Pelland
April 2006

Here’s a bit of nastiness involving clones and dinner.

Short Fiction: Next Stop, Babylon

by John Mantooth
April 2006

Meet the creepiest bus driver you’ll ever encounter.
This story placed 2nd in our 2006 Halloween story contest.

Short Fiction: Absence of Divinity

by Steven Savile
March 2006

Higher powers fight over the genius of Leonardo Da Vinci.

Short Fiction: Recursion

by John Mavin
March 2006

How many times could you watch your child die?

Short Fiction: Men of Renown

by Christopher Rowe
February 2006

Two nephalim find their way in the modern world.

Short Fiction: The Man Who Murdered Himself

by Nancy Fulda
January 2006

The dangers of quasi-legal medical procedures doom a sick man.

Short Fiction: Reindeer Games

by Rhonda Eudaly
December 2005

A bit of holiday darkness involving Rudolph.

Short Fiction: The Jerusalem Theatre

by Lavie Tidhar
December 2005

Mysticism in the middle of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

Short Fiction: Trees of Bone

by Daliso Chaponda
December 2005

The ghosts of civil war haunt an old medicine man.

Short Fiction: Shih-Yuan: The Wish is Granted

by Angeline Hawkes
November 2005

A matronly hostess watches over an unusual group of vagabonds.

Short Fiction: The Pain, Heartbreak and Redemption of Owen Frost

by Steven Savile
October 2005

One man’s struggles against the sadistic Monks that hold him hostage.

Short Fiction: The Other Mr. Nedzi

by Benjamin J. Parris
September 2005

A desperate loser seeks help from a brain in a box.

Short Fiction: Breathe

by Terry Gates-Grimwood
August 2005

A study of what it means to be human.

Short Fiction: The Prosperina Affair, Part 5 (The Orpheus Project)

by Bryn Sparks
August 2005

The thrilling conclusion of The Orpheus Project serialization

Short Fiction: Tommy Faces the Grim Truth

by Daniel Euphrat
July 2005

A young man tries to shake the writing monkey off his back.

Short Fiction: Meetings

by Mari Adkins
July 2005

A young man and the pains of becoming a vampire.

Short Fiction: The Thing in the Refrigerator That Could Stop Time

by Matthew Kressel
June 2005

A surrealistic battle with an evil being with an unfair power.

Short Fiction: The Tantalus Effect, Part 4 (The Orpheus Project)

by Bryn Sparks
June 2005

The lastest installment of the thrilling The Orpheus Project

Short Fiction: The Artemis Ascendancy, Part 3 (Orpheus Project)

by Bryn Sparks
May 2005

Part three of five of The Orpheus Project serialization

Short Fiction: Camera Eye

by Jon Christian Allison
May 2005

Here’s a bit of musical cyberpunk with a twisted edge.

Short Fiction: At a Distance

by Michael Budnik
May 2005

A murder mystery for a world without murder.

Short Fiction: The Janus Affair, Part 2 (Orpheus Project)

by Bryn Sparks
April 2005

Part two of five of The Orpheus Project serialization.

Short Fiction: Vodka Through a Straw

by Peter Hagelslag
April 2005

A story to tell the children.

Short Fiction: The Alien Apprentice

by Vera Searles
April 2005

A wonderful story about witchcraft and aliens.

Short Fiction: Cruel Dimensions

by M.S. Crawford
March 2005

A tale of time travel gone wrong.

Short Fiction: The Orpheus Project, Part 1

by Bryn Sparks
March 2005

Short Fiction: When the Party’s Over

by Rhonda Eudaly
March 2005

Fairy godmothers clash at a trashy talk show. Our most popular online story over the years.

Short Fiction: A Matter of Perspective

by Liam Rands
February 2005

A classic examination of gender role-reversal.

Short Fiction: Abe and Arnie

by Justin Stewart
February 2005

An Abe Vigoda fueled nightmare.

Short Fiction: The Radio Garden

by William I. Lengeman III
February 2005

A dying boy strives to leave his mark in a post-apocalyptic world.

Short Fiction: Insurrection

by Eric Marin
February 2005

What do you do against an unstoppable enemy?

Short Fiction: My Children

by Ron Bruno
January 2005

Losing children is tough, especially when they’re your obsession.

Short Fiction: How to Kill a God

by Charles Martin
January 2005

A surreal story of a god on the run.

Short Fiction: Bugs

by Gill Ainsworth
January 2005

A story to make you squirm with the thought of creepy-crawlies.