Apex Magazine

Interview with Author Leah Ning

In “We Used to Wake to Song,” humans are sacrificing their living bodies to help save the planet. They have become features of the environment, their flesh rotting but never...

Interview with Author Leah Ning

In “We Used to Wake to Song,” humans are sacrificing their living bodies to help save the planet. They have become features of the environment, their flesh rotting but never...

We Used to Wake to Song

Salty swell over my head, tugging me back, the raw and tender creases of my elbows against the forearms they're linked with. Brine up my nose, in my mouth. The...

We Used to Wake to Song

Salty swell over my head, tugging me back, the raw and tender creases of my elbows against the forearms they're linked with. Brine up my nose, in my mouth. The...

Don't Hide From the Mirror

Gaze into it instead. Watch your skin peel back in tantalizing, translucent strips. It won’t hurt, I promise. Your eyes will sting at first, but that’ll ebb once you see...

Don't Hide From the Mirror

Gaze into it instead. Watch your skin peel back in tantalizing, translucent strips. It won’t hurt, I promise. Your eyes will sting at first, but that’ll ebb once you see...

FAQ on My Vagina Dentata

Been getting a lot of the same questions since I started my blog, so I’m putting them all here. My ask box is closed. For any other questions, use your...

FAQ on My Vagina Dentata

Been getting a lot of the same questions since I started my blog, so I’m putting them all here. My ask box is closed. For any other questions, use your...

Dust, Stars, and Shadows: How Western Genre Literature Helped Shape Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror

Just as humans share a great deal of DNA with every other animal on Earth, all literary genres contain similar fundamental elements. We know printed storytelling goes back centuries, but...

Dust, Stars, and Shadows: How Western Genre Literature Helped Shape Fantasy, ...

Just as humans share a great deal of DNA with every other animal on Earth, all literary genres contain similar fundamental elements. We know printed storytelling goes back centuries, but...

Code Green

History doesn’t often linger on the details of messy aftermaths, those inevitable compatriots of vast dreams and noble intentions. Whatever survivors emerge become preoccupied with surviving, too distracted by necessity...

Code Green

History doesn’t often linger on the details of messy aftermaths, those inevitable compatriots of vast dreams and noble intentions. Whatever survivors emerge become preoccupied with surviving, too distracted by necessity...

Excerpt from ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION — "The Water Runner" by Eugen Bacon

Their sex gave the whale-bone unit and its thatched roof of albatross wings a sweet musty odor like a ripened durian fruit. It was one of the many fossil houses...

Excerpt from ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION — "The Water Runne...

Their sex gave the whale-bone unit and its thatched roof of albatross wings a sweet musty odor like a ripened durian fruit. It was one of the many fossil houses...