Apex Magazine

Interview with Artist Martina Boscolo

For this month’s cover art, we are using a marvelous piece from artist Martina Boscolo. Heavily influenced by fantasy and sci-fi video games, books, and comics, her fascinating work mixes...

Interview with Artist Martina Boscolo

For this month’s cover art, we are using a marvelous piece from artist Martina Boscolo. Heavily influenced by fantasy and sci-fi video games, books, and comics, her fascinating work mixes...

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...

The Fine Print

Red dust swirled about the black vehicle as it slid silently into the village. Nuhu was sitting among the other men under the giant flame tree in the village square,...

The Fine Print

Red dust swirled about the black vehicle as it slid silently into the village. Nuhu was sitting among the other men under the giant flame tree in the village square,...

Interview with Kelly Sandoval

A hundred blessings on the parents who raise twins! Two babies to diaper, two mouths to feed, twice the laundry, twice the sleepless nights. Exhausted parents of twins know they...

Interview with Kelly Sandoval

A hundred blessings on the parents who raise twins! Two babies to diaper, two mouths to feed, twice the laundry, twice the sleepless nights. Exhausted parents of twins know they...

What Sisters Take

Here’s the thing you need to know to understand this story: I was meant to be an only child. The doctors, when they examined my mother, only counted one heartbeat....

What Sisters Take

Here’s the thing you need to know to understand this story: I was meant to be an only child. The doctors, when they examined my mother, only counted one heartbeat....

Survival, After

Narrated by the author It happens on your way home from dropping your brother off at school. You’re stopped at a red light. There’s a soundless flash that makes your...

Survival, After

Narrated by the author It happens on your way home from dropping your brother off at school. You’re stopped at a red light. There’s a soundless flash that makes your...

Dialog, Patois: If It's Good Enough for Anthony Burgess, It's Good Enough For You

In 2015, Troy Wiggins’ story, “A Score of Roses” appeared in the anthology Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History. His story utilized AAVE (African American Vernacular English)....

Dialog, Patois: If It's Good Enough for Anthony Burgess, It's Good Enough For...

In 2015, Troy Wiggins’ story, “A Score of Roses” appeared in the anthology Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History. His story utilized AAVE (African American Vernacular English)....