Apex Magazine is a digital dark science fiction and fantasy genre zine that features award-winning short fiction, essays, and interviews. Established in 2009, our fiction has won several Hugo and Nebula Awards.
EDITORIAL
"Musings from Maryland" by Lesley Conner
ORIGINAL FICTION
"Cervidae, New and Sharp" by Anj Baker
"When I Heard Calypso" by Rob Cameron
"Dispatch From My Ex-Girlfriend's Lower Intestine" by A.M. Maris
"Parts and Halves" by Alia Ai-Ming Shahzad
"It Starts With Teeth" by Stefan Alcalá Slater
"The Light Below" by C.M. Sullivan
FLASH FICTION
"Boys of the Fellwood" by David R. Hoffman
"In the Blue Hour" by RJ Aurand
"We Were Once Twelve" by S.C. Pires
ESSAYS
"Learning From the Nerds: Game Writing Techniques That Apply To Fiction" by Richard Dansky
"Reality, Exhaustion, and AI" by Lesley Conner
"Words for Thought" by A.C. Wise
CLASSIC FICTION
"The Once-girl Made of Mycellium" by Shingai Njeri Kagunda
"N-raptured" by Justin C. Key
INTERVIEWS
Interview with Author Anj Baker by Marissa van Uden
Interview with Author Alia Ai-Ming Shahzad by Marissa van Uden
Interview with Artist Jeleynai by Bradley Powers