Apex Magazine

Lehr, Rex

Captain Lehr’s face had been ravaged by decades under the coruscating emanations of this forgotten world’s overbright sun. The angry star, a rare purple giant, dominated the daysky with visible...

Lehr, Rex

Captain Lehr’s face had been ravaged by decades under the coruscating emanations of this forgotten world’s overbright sun. The angry star, a rare purple giant, dominated the daysky with visible...

Useless Things

“Señora?” The man standing at my screen door is travel stained. Migrant, up from Mexico. The dogs haven’t heard him come up, but now they erupt in a frenzy of...

Useless Things

“Señora?” The man standing at my screen door is travel stained. Migrant, up from Mexico. The dogs haven’t heard him come up, but now they erupt in a frenzy of...

The Prowl

Plateye: A ghost or spirit that can assume many shapes from animal to human to monster. Believed by some Gullah people to be the incarnation of spirits of dead pirates,...

The Prowl

Plateye: A ghost or spirit that can assume many shapes from animal to human to monster. Believed by some Gullah people to be the incarnation of spirits of dead pirates,...

The Yellow Dressing Gown

Of all the curators at the Samuel Mather Parrington Museum, I liked Michael Overton the least. He was a loud, bustling, back-slapping man, red-faced and brash and quite, quite stupid....

The Yellow Dressing Gown

Of all the curators at the Samuel Mather Parrington Museum, I liked Michael Overton the least. He was a loud, bustling, back-slapping man, red-faced and brash and quite, quite stupid....

This Creeping Thing

For Susan, love was just something that crept up on her. There was no such thing as falling in love, falling simply wasn’t part of the process; the most Susan...

This Creeping Thing

For Susan, love was just something that crept up on her. There was no such thing as falling in love, falling simply wasn’t part of the process; the most Susan...

A Life in Fictions

He wrote me into a story again. I told him to stop doing that, after we broke up. In fact, it was one of the reasons we broke up. I...

A Life in Fictions

He wrote me into a story again. I told him to stop doing that, after we broke up. In fact, it was one of the reasons we broke up. I...

Gemphalon

The call came mid-sun. It was like a bell, or a chime, something Gemphalon had never heard before. He put down the piece of slate he’d chosen for the roof...

Gemphalon

The call came mid-sun. It was like a bell, or a chime, something Gemphalon had never heard before. He put down the piece of slate he’d chosen for the roof...