Apex Magazine

On the Day You Spend Forever With Your Dog

Narrated by Erica Hastings When the dog dies, she doesn’t know she is dying. You shouldn’t feel sorry for her. To her, life lasts forever. § Infants and dogs recognize...

On the Day You Spend Forever With Your Dog

Narrated by Erica Hastings When the dog dies, she doesn’t know she is dying. You shouldn’t feel sorry for her. To her, life lasts forever. § Infants and dogs recognize...

Field Biology of the Wee Fairies

Narrated by Brea Grant When Amelia turned fourteen, everyone assured her that she’d find her fairy soon. Almost all girls did. You’d find a fairy, a beautiful little fairy, and...

Field Biology of the Wee Fairies

Narrated by Brea Grant When Amelia turned fourteen, everyone assured her that she’d find her fairy soon. Almost all girls did. You’d find a fairy, a beautiful little fairy, and...

A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies

GEORGE, JC—THE RUNAWAY PRINCE—J FIC GEO 1994 You’d think it would make us happy when a kid checks out the same book a zillion times in a row, but actually...

A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies

GEORGE, JC—THE RUNAWAY PRINCE—J FIC GEO 1994 You’d think it would make us happy when a kid checks out the same book a zillion times in a row, but actually...

An Unexpected Boon

Narrated by Veronica Giguere Kalyani had to stop and touch the Jambu trees lining the road, each exactly twice, or else her insides would itch. She counted as she walked....

An Unexpected Boon

Narrated by Veronica Giguere Kalyani had to stop and touch the Jambu trees lining the road, each exactly twice, or else her insides would itch. She counted as she walked....

So Sings the Siren

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding...

So Sings the Siren

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding...

Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™

In the Great American Indian novel, when it is finally written, all of the white people will be Indians and all of the Indians will be ghosts. —Sherman Alexie, How...

Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™

In the Great American Indian novel, when it is finally written, all of the white people will be Indians and all of the Indians will be ghosts. —Sherman Alexie, How...

Luminaria

Each invitation, written on thick paper, hand-sweet, heavy stock. Deckled edges. Shadows grow long. The cicadas whir in the heat. She descends the great stairs to the foyer, taking small...

Luminaria

Each invitation, written on thick paper, hand-sweet, heavy stock. Deckled edges. Shadows grow long. The cicadas whir in the heat. She descends the great stairs to the foyer, taking small...