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Episode 60: Clap Your Hands

By Andrew F. Kooy | Narrated by Christopher Soren Kelly "Clap Your Hands"—Published inApex Magazine, Issue 107, April 2018. Read it here:https://apex-magazine.com/clap-your-hands/ Andrew F. Kooy is a full-time dad, a...

Episode 60: Clap Your Hands

By Andrew F. Kooy | Narrated by Christopher Soren Kelly "Clap Your Hands"—Published inApex Magazine, Issue 107, April 2018. Read it here:https://apex-magazine.com/clap-your-hands/ Andrew F. Kooy is a full-time dad, a...

Words for Thought #24

Welcome to the latest Words for Thought! As I’m writing this, we’ve had a string of downpours and thunderstorms, with the forecast predicting even more rain on the way. As...

Words for Thought #24

Welcome to the latest Words for Thought! As I’m writing this, we’ve had a string of downpours and thunderstorms, with the forecast predicting even more rain on the way. As...

Cherry Wood Coffin

The voices begin three days before someone is to die. The coffin-maker wakes up covered in sweat. He has been talking in his sleep again, his wife says, in the...

Cherry Wood Coffin

The voices begin three days before someone is to die. The coffin-maker wakes up covered in sweat. He has been talking in his sleep again, his wife says, in the...

Signal Intrusion

On November 22, 1987, viewers tuning into WGN-TV were treated to two signal intrusions featuring the face—and presumably the ass—of pop culture icon Max Headroom. Someone, or something, had interfered...

Signal Intrusion

On November 22, 1987, viewers tuning into WGN-TV were treated to two signal intrusions featuring the face—and presumably the ass—of pop culture icon Max Headroom. Someone, or something, had interfered...

How I Learned to Follow My Own Advice and Let It Go

This is really the longest undercover humblebrag I’ve ever written and, thus, you should regard everything I say after this paragraph with some suspicion. Possibly some annoyance with me, as...

How I Learned to Follow My Own Advice and Let It Go

This is really the longest undercover humblebrag I’ve ever written and, thus, you should regard everything I say after this paragraph with some suspicion. Possibly some annoyance with me, as...

Fifteen Minutes Hate

You wake up to your phone crawling across your face, buzzing hard against your cheekbone. Snatch it up on muscle memory and the little plastic cilia retract. The screen is...

Fifteen Minutes Hate

You wake up to your phone crawling across your face, buzzing hard against your cheekbone. Snatch it up on muscle memory and the little plastic cilia retract. The screen is...

Luisah's Church

Jerena hung up after listening to the on-hold loop six whole minutes. She knew those needle-sharp mini-shrieks ending each repetition were supposed to annoy her. “Well guess what? They worked,”...

Luisah's Church

Jerena hung up after listening to the on-hold loop six whole minutes. She knew those needle-sharp mini-shrieks ending each repetition were supposed to annoy her. “Well guess what? They worked,”...