Apex Magazine

The Shadow We Cast Through Time

[Archive reconstruction; lore record, The First Demon, as re-told by Truthteller Surya] It is told that the first demon was born when a young human child from the first village...

The Shadow We Cast Through Time

[Archive reconstruction; lore record, The First Demon, as re-told by Truthteller Surya] It is told that the first demon was born when a young human child from the first village...

Karina Who Kissed Spacetime

I always remember snow speckling the orange cone of streetlight that held my first kiss. It wasn't snowing that night. This was before time fractured, left me slipping through its...

Karina Who Kissed Spacetime

I always remember snow speckling the orange cone of streetlight that held my first kiss. It wasn't snowing that night. This was before time fractured, left me slipping through its...

Interview with Indrapramit Das

Stephanie Jacob: “The Widow and the Xir” is both lyrically beautiful and emotionally compelling. It is a striking fantasy but also an engaging love story. Sanih, after losing her husband,...

Interview with Indrapramit Das

Stephanie Jacob: “The Widow and the Xir” is both lyrically beautiful and emotionally compelling. It is a striking fantasy but also an engaging love story. Sanih, after losing her husband,...

The Widow and the Xir

Namir watches his wife and son as they sift baking salt-pans under the sun. They help gather the wet mounds of white clay that will be turned to dry powder...

The Widow and the Xir

Namir watches his wife and son as they sift baking salt-pans under the sun. They help gather the wet mounds of white clay that will be turned to dry powder...