Apex Magazine

Interview with Author Joelle Wellington

A Southern Gothic horror story with the structure of a fairy tale, Joelle Wellington’s powerful “COTTONMOUTH” is a southern-flavored gender-flipped riff on Koschei the Deathless, complete with a separated death,...

Interview with Author Joelle Wellington

A Southern Gothic horror story with the structure of a fairy tale, Joelle Wellington’s powerful “COTTONMOUTH” is a southern-flavored gender-flipped riff on Koschei the Deathless, complete with a separated death,...

Episode 81: COTTONMOUTH

By Joelle Wellington | Narrated by Angela Naomi "Cottonmouth" — published inApex Magazine,issue 125, September 2021. Read it here:https://apex-magazine.com/cottonmouth Please note that this story includes racial violence against Black people...

Episode 81: COTTONMOUTH

By Joelle Wellington | Narrated by Angela Naomi "Cottonmouth" — published inApex Magazine,issue 125, September 2021. Read it here:https://apex-magazine.com/cottonmouth Please note that this story includes racial violence against Black people...

COTTONMOUTH

Narrated by Angela Naomi He finds her in his grandpa’s attic, in the Big House. The hatch has been locked up tight since the day Grant Dixon was born—twenty-two years...

COTTONMOUTH

Narrated by Angela Naomi He finds her in his grandpa’s attic, in the Big House. The hatch has been locked up tight since the day Grant Dixon was born—twenty-two years...