Apex Magazine

Beautiful Poison in Pastel

The interrogation room smells like gasoline. The walls are deep gray, a shade darker than my front porch. I prop one of my ankles on a knee and lean forward....

Beautiful Poison in Pastel

The interrogation room smells like gasoline. The walls are deep gray, a shade darker than my front porch. I prop one of my ankles on a knee and lean forward....

Beautiful Poison in Pastel

The interrogation room smells like gasoline. The walls are deep gray, a shade darker than my front porch. I prop one of my ankles on a knee and lean forward....

Beautiful Poison in Pastel

The interrogation room smells like gasoline. The walls are deep gray, a shade darker than my front porch. I prop one of my ankles on a knee and lean forward....

Over Moonlit Clouds

narrated by Gabe Hicks Folks later claimed she was acting strange from the moment she boarded the plane. They described her as skittish, curt, radiating an aura of danger. Some,...

Over Moonlit Clouds

narrated by Gabe Hicks Folks later claimed she was acting strange from the moment she boarded the plane. They described her as skittish, curt, radiating an aura of danger. Some,...

Your Rover is Here

The LED clock beneath the dashboard glows 11:00pm. My heart pumps Four-Hour Surge through hellfire veins to combat the car’s lulling vibrations. My fists grip the steering wheel. Instead of...

Your Rover is Here

The LED clock beneath the dashboard glows 11:00pm. My heart pumps Four-Hour Surge through hellfire veins to combat the car’s lulling vibrations. My fists grip the steering wheel. Instead of...

The Wreck of the Medusa

What I saw last night, reflected back from the depths, was not my face. Not the one I see in the grime of The Medusa’s portholes, nor in the glint...

The Wreck of the Medusa

What I saw last night, reflected back from the depths, was not my face. Not the one I see in the grime of The Medusa’s portholes, nor in the glint...

Daughter, Mother, Charcoal

When I was a little girl, Mum would wrap potatoes in aluminum foil, then put them deep into the blazing hearth between the coals and grandma’s bones. Mum would hold...

Daughter, Mother, Charcoal

When I was a little girl, Mum would wrap potatoes in aluminum foil, then put them deep into the blazing hearth between the coals and grandma’s bones. Mum would hold...

Walking the Deep Down

“I need you to walk the deep down,” Auntie Creo said, right before she cut off her left index finger and hung it around Rendezvous’ neck. “Take this with you....

Walking the Deep Down

“I need you to walk the deep down,” Auntie Creo said, right before she cut off her left index finger and hung it around Rendezvous’ neck. “Take this with you....