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Carnival Ever After

Just six private showings this evening. Six. She pressed her lips together. Perhaps shifting to these smaller performances had not been the best idea. True, her more public performances had...

Carnival Ever After

Just six private showings this evening. Six. She pressed her lips together. Perhaps shifting to these smaller performances had not been the best idea. True, her more public performances had...

This Is the Moment, Or One of Them

This is the moment when we first met. I watch as we exchange names with the rest of the group, listen intently to the instructor, reach for the clay and...

This Is the Moment, Or One of Them

This is the moment when we first met. I watch as we exchange names with the rest of the group, listen intently to the instructor, reach for the clay and...

Episode #24: Inhabiting Your Skin

By Mari Ness | Narrated by Lisa Shininger "Inhabiting Your Skin"—Published in Apex Magazine issue 73, June 2015. Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/inhabiting-your-skin/ Mari Ness has published fiction and poetry in...

Episode #24: Inhabiting Your Skin

By Mari Ness | Narrated by Lisa Shininger "Inhabiting Your Skin"—Published in Apex Magazine issue 73, June 2015. Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/inhabiting-your-skin/ Mari Ness has published fiction and poetry in...

Interview with Mari Ness

Mari Ness’s fiction often pulls from fairy tales and mythology, and then blends in themes of isolation, fierce love, unexpected methods of communication, and oftentimes regret. It makes for a...

Interview with Mari Ness

Mari Ness’s fiction often pulls from fairy tales and mythology, and then blends in themes of isolation, fierce love, unexpected methods of communication, and oftentimes regret. It makes for a...

Inhabiting Your Skin

Narrated by Lisa Shininger The house won’t stop talking to you. You’ve tried to turn it off, several times, but it keeps happily turning itself back on, with a little...

Inhabiting Your Skin

Narrated by Lisa Shininger The house won’t stop talking to you. You’ve tried to turn it off, several times, but it keeps happily turning itself back on, with a little...

Undone

They have done everything they can to hide the arm. One of the finest needlewomen in the court created an elaborate sling, decorated with jewels and feathers, with the pattern...

Undone

They have done everything they can to hide the arm. One of the finest needlewomen in the court created an elaborate sling, decorated with jewels and feathers, with the pattern...

An Assault of Color

The curses were the loveliest, and most satisfying, to paint. She could see them in her mind, even before she picked up a brush, pulsing and glowing with color in...

An Assault of Color

The curses were the loveliest, and most satisfying, to paint. She could see them in her mind, even before she picked up a brush, pulsing and glowing with color in...