Apex Magazine

Symphony to a city under the stars

Allegro con brio The night she came back, the Cut bled dimensions off onto the City … like every other night. Sinclair was ready for that day’s sunset. He’d been...

Symphony to a city under the stars

Allegro con brio The night she came back, the Cut bled dimensions off onto the City … like every other night. Sinclair was ready for that day’s sunset. He’d been...

The Heaven-Moving Way

Narrated by Curtis C. Chen When we gaze up at the heavens, we see exactly what one sees from Mother Earth: the resplendent, teeming stars and beacons of civilization flickering...

The Heaven-Moving Way

Narrated by Curtis C. Chen When we gaze up at the heavens, we see exactly what one sees from Mother Earth: the resplendent, teeming stars and beacons of civilization flickering...

The Heaven-Moving Way

Narrated by Curtis C. Chen When we gaze up at the heavens, we see exactly what one sees from Mother Earth: the resplendent, teeming stars and beacons of civilization flickering...

The Heaven-Moving Way

Narrated by Curtis C. Chen When we gaze up at the heavens, we see exactly what one sees from Mother Earth: the resplendent, teeming stars and beacons of civilization flickering...

A Night Out at a Nice Place

There was a peculiar kind of sadism, or was it masochism, involved in downlowing into a limbsuit and going out among the slowfolk. We’d get an especial chuckle when we’d...

A Night Out at a Nice Place

There was a peculiar kind of sadism, or was it masochism, involved in downlowing into a limbsuit and going out among the slowfolk. We’d get an especial chuckle when we’d...

To Blight a Fig Tree Before It Bears Fruit

Witness the Meshing. What a crowd has gathered. Reappropriated gallows creak beneath the weight of eight brown bodies hanging. Their wrists are shackled with electric zip ties. Their bellies are...

To Blight a Fig Tree Before It Bears Fruit

Witness the Meshing. What a crowd has gathered. Reappropriated gallows creak beneath the weight of eight brown bodies hanging. Their wrists are shackled with electric zip ties. Their bellies are...

Interview with Author Lila Bowen

I’m a child of the 80s, which means I grew up watching the movie The NeverEnding Story. When I was very young, the “Magic Mirror Gate” scene always scared me....

Interview with Author Lila Bowen

I’m a child of the 80s, which means I grew up watching the movie The NeverEnding Story. When I was very young, the “Magic Mirror Gate” scene always scared me....

Asylum of Cuckoos

Rhett Walker had always been a creature of unsettled dreams. When he woke on one particular night, somewhere in the dusty nowhere of west Durango, he couldn’t quite remember what...

Asylum of Cuckoos

Rhett Walker had always been a creature of unsettled dreams. When he woke on one particular night, somewhere in the dusty nowhere of west Durango, he couldn’t quite remember what...