Apex Magazine

Mr. Death

Narrated by Chris Lester I’ve ferried two hundred and twenty-one souls across the river of death, and I can already tell my two-hundred-and-twenty-second is going to be a real shitkicker....

Mr. Death

Narrated by Chris Lester I’ve ferried two hundred and twenty-one souls across the river of death, and I can already tell my two-hundred-and-twenty-second is going to be a real shitkicker....

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...

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...

The Tomato Thief

Grandma Harken lived on the edge of town, in a house with its back to the desert. Some people said that she lived out there because she liked her privacy,...

The Tomato Thief

Grandma Harken lived on the edge of town, in a house with its back to the desert. Some people said that she lived out there because she liked her privacy,...

If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love

If you were a dinosaur, my love, then you would be a T-Rex. You’d be a small one, only five feet, ten inches, the same height as human-you. You’d be...

If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love

If you were a dinosaur, my love, then you would be a T-Rex. You’d be a small one, only five feet, ten inches, the same height as human-you. You’d be...

Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast

Each morning is a decision. Should I put on the brown mask or the blue? Should I be a tradesman or an assassin today? Whatever the queen demands, of course,...

Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast

Each morning is a decision. Should I put on the brown mask or the blue? Should I be a tradesman or an assassin today? Whatever the queen demands, of course,...