Apex Magazine

Love's Ecology

1.I have been freebut didn’t know myself.I won’t be free again, but now I know 2.Your fingers are my bread,your eyes my wine, your bodymy tender birdsyour heart my meat....

Love's Ecology

1.I have been freebut didn’t know myself.I won’t be free again, but now I know 2.Your fingers are my bread,your eyes my wine, your bodymy tender birdsyour heart my meat....

Ghosha

System error, Devi sayssoft as incenseash.Titanium arms(red with reflected silkturmeric-daubed brassgears machine oil slick, anointedwith drops of sesame)stillemptyof blessing. Another child tugson a gold-edged sari, points highat the bell Father...

Ghosha

System error, Devi sayssoft as incenseash.Titanium arms(red with reflected silkturmeric-daubed brassgears machine oil slick, anointedwith drops of sesame)stillemptyof blessing. Another child tugson a gold-edged sari, points highat the bell Father...

The Chorus of Dead Girls

Winter sticksbetween our ribs:lightless shale, bayonets of iceand last September’s briars. But hunger’s knifetwists stronger yet.We move upon its edge,two by two, Ark-formation,restlessas magpies turning dun-grass—no screw or coffin nail...

The Chorus of Dead Girls

Winter sticksbetween our ribs:lightless shale, bayonets of iceand last September’s briars. But hunger’s knifetwists stronger yet.We move upon its edge,two by two, Ark-formation,restlessas magpies turning dun-grass—no screw or coffin nail...

Dogstar Men

All the men I might have lovedHave gone to Sirius Sirius, the DogstarThe Dreadstar of SummerThat Cranberry Bog, that Red Lamp DistrictPromising Scarlet Women, Scarlet Waves of GrainA Wine-Stained Sea...

Dogstar Men

All the men I might have lovedHave gone to Sirius Sirius, the DogstarThe Dreadstar of SummerThat Cranberry Bog, that Red Lamp DistrictPromising Scarlet Women, Scarlet Waves of GrainA Wine-Stained Sea...

Eclipse

Ghost flesh sears easily, like the skin of xeroderms.This is why so few hauntings take place at noon.The sun is a scourge. Photons burn like acid.But when, as will happen...

Eclipse

Ghost flesh sears easily, like the skin of xeroderms.This is why so few hauntings take place at noon.The sun is a scourge. Photons burn like acid.But when, as will happen...

Wisdom

After the ground is burned andits black skeleton trees removedthe machines scrapetill it bleeds yesterday,worms rolling up to escape;the warm dark disturbedby needs no one understands,by dreams that include noliving...

Wisdom

After the ground is burned andits black skeleton trees removedthe machines scrapetill it bleeds yesterday,worms rolling up to escape;the warm dark disturbedby needs no one understands,by dreams that include noliving...

Going Woodo

Day 409They told meWhen they came for meThe man-His thumb, I bit it offHe needed twenty-four stitches.Imagine that. Day 387My hands are callousedAnd senselessI run on all fleet fours as...

Going Woodo

Day 409They told meWhen they came for meThe man-His thumb, I bit it offHe needed twenty-four stitches.Imagine that. Day 387My hands are callousedAnd senselessI run on all fleet fours as...