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Apex Digest Online Issue 1

Our first “issue” went up last Sunday. It features a fantastic new story by Katherine Sparrow called “These Days.”
There are other goodies as well. Adrienne Jones has a piece about the role Satan plays in modern horror. Lavie Tidhar writes the first in a series of articles about his book collecting experiences. We interview Permuted [...]

SHORT FICTION: These Days

by Katherine Sparrow

April is pure rot. Most days I don’t drag myself out of bed, and when I do? Posters with body parts are wheat-pasted up and down our block. Radio stations are mid-theory about why women get the wild, men get the crack, and kids get the numb, when the signal just bleeds out into howls. No one works at the grocery store anymore, and you can take what you want, but all that is left is unlabeled canned goods.