Apex Magazine

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...

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...

Come Here, Ofelia

They found her at the start of the first spring rains. The culverts were clogged with leaves and surgical masks and used needles that surely must have swirled around her...

Come Here, Ofelia

They found her at the start of the first spring rains. The culverts were clogged with leaves and surgical masks and used needles that surely must have swirled around her...

Ghosts of Summer

September, 100° F The apartment is dark when I return, the blackout curtains doing their job of keeping the late afternoon sun out. It doesn’t matter, though. The air is...

Ghosts of Summer

September, 100° F The apartment is dark when I return, the blackout curtains doing their job of keeping the late afternoon sun out. It doesn’t matter, though. The air is...

Exuviae

Every dawn, I shed the husk of who I was. It lies crumpled by the bed—smiling, hopeful, small. I slip on today’s skin: the eyes sharper, teeth honed on disappointments,...

Exuviae

Every dawn, I shed the husk of who I was. It lies crumpled by the bed—smiling, hopeful, small. I slip on today’s skin: the eyes sharper, teeth honed on disappointments,...