The horrors of playing a collectible card game.
Short Fiction: A Handful of Pearls
Subversive evil exists everywhere…even in paradise.
Short Fiction: Twelve-A
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
A bit of post-traumatic syndrome from Apex editor Jason Sizemore.
Interview - Jeremy Shipp
Jeremy discusses his well-received first novel Vacation.
Interview - Sara King
Apex editor Jodi Lee discusses the finer points of living in the remote lands of Alaska with Ms. King.
Interview - David Wong
An interrogation of the author of the hilarious novel John Dies at the End.
Short Fiction: The Dead Man and the Berserk
The club is called Bazard and the old brick building doesn’t want it.
Short Fiction: Post Apocalypse
The letter came on Tuesday marked “Post Apocalypse.”
Short Fiction: Under the Dryer
I tried to warn them, but the humans wouldn’t listen and the cats just taunted me.
Not Flesh Nor Feathers - Chapter 1
The Tennessee River has swollen again, and nothing stops it.
Short Fiction: Horizontal Rain
A chilling classic set in Iceland.
Short Fiction: Crosses
The thread of life can be such a fragile thing.
Wings to the Kingdom - Chapter 1
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
Class struggles and a duel in this inventive dark SF work by our favorite Kiwi.
Short Fiction: Skin
Nicholson gives a glimpse into the torture of being a burn victim.
Short Fiction: Only Springtime When She’s Gone
Here’s a classic story of future obsession.
Short Fiction: The Heavens Fall
Victims unwittingly get their revenge.
Short Fiction: Clone Barbecue
Here’s a bit of nastiness involving clones and dinner.
Short Fiction: Next Stop, Babylon
Meet the creepiest bus driver you’ll ever encounter.
This story placed 2nd in our 2006 Halloween story contest.
Short Fiction: Absence of Divinity
Higher powers fight over the genius of Leonardo Da Vinci.
Short Fiction: Recursion
How many times could you watch your child die?
Short Fiction: Men of Renown
Two nephalim find their way in the modern world.
Short Fiction: The Man Who Murdered Himself
The dangers of quasi-legal medical procedures doom a sick man.
Short Fiction: Reindeer Games
A bit of holiday darkness involving Rudolph.
Short Fiction: The Jerusalem Theatre
Mysticism in the middle of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.
Short Fiction: Trees of Bone
The ghosts of civil war haunt an old medicine man.
Short Fiction: Shih-Yuan: The Wish is Granted
A matronly hostess watches over an unusual group of vagabonds.
Short Fiction: The Pain, Heartbreak and Redemption of Owen Frost
One man’s struggles against the sadistic Monks that hold him hostage.
Short Fiction: The Other Mr. Nedzi
A desperate loser seeks help from a brain in a box.
Short Fiction: Breathe
A study of what it means to be human.
Short Fiction: The Prosperina Affair, Part 5 (The Orpheus Project)
The thrilling conclusion of The Orpheus Project serialization
Short Fiction: Tommy Faces the Grim Truth
A young man tries to shake the writing monkey off his back.
Short Fiction: Meetings
A young man and the pains of becoming a vampire.
Short Fiction: The Thing in the Refrigerator That Could Stop Time
A surrealistic battle with an evil being with an unfair power.
Short Fiction: The Tantalus Effect, Part 4 (The Orpheus Project)
The lastest installment of the thrilling The Orpheus Project
Short Fiction: The Artemis Ascendancy, Part 3 (Orpheus Project)
Part three of five of The Orpheus Project serialization
Short Fiction: Camera Eye
Here’s a bit of musical cyberpunk with a twisted edge.
Short Fiction: At a Distance
A murder mystery for a world without murder.
Short Fiction: The Janus Affair, Part 2 (Orpheus Project)
Part two of five of The Orpheus Project serialization.
Short Fiction: Vodka Through a Straw
A story to tell the children.
Short Fiction: The Alien Apprentice
A wonderful story about witchcraft and aliens.
Short Fiction: Cruel Dimensions
A tale of time travel gone wrong.
Short Fiction: When the Party’s Over
Fairy godmothers clash at a trashy talk show. Our most popular online story over the years.
Short Fiction: A Matter of Perspective
A classic examination of gender role-reversal.
Short Fiction: Abe and Arnie
An Abe Vigoda fueled nightmare.
Short Fiction: The Radio Garden
A dying boy strives to leave his mark in a post-apocalyptic world.
Short Fiction: Insurrection
What do you do against an unstoppable enemy?
Short Fiction: My Children
Losing children is tough, especially when they’re your obsession.
Short Fiction: How to Kill a God
A surreal story of a god on the run.
Short Fiction: Bugs
A story to make you squirm with the thought of creepy-crawlies.