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My high school history teacher stood with smug authority before forty kids he was supposed to educate and said, “No one in America goes hungry, unless they want to.” He...
Why it Matters When I Write About Space Janitors
My high school history teacher stood with smug authority before forty kids he was supposed to educate and said, “No one in America goes hungry, unless they want to.” He...
My mother tended to the springs of conception and abortion for a thousand years. Then she passed them to me. Some said that between the bookstore and the steel factory...
The Bathhouse for Long Life
My mother tended to the springs of conception and abortion for a thousand years. Then she passed them to me. Some said that between the bookstore and the steel factory...
Welcome to Apex Magazine issue 153. As we enter beach reads season and a lot readers are stuffing their TBR with light, breezy, fun reads, we’re bringing you an issue...
Musings from Maryland
Welcome to Apex Magazine issue 153. As we enter beach reads season and a lot readers are stuffing their TBR with light, breezy, fun reads, we’re bringing you an issue...
Apex Magazine is a digital dark science fiction and fantasy genre zine that features award-winning short fiction, essays, and interviews. Established in 2009, our fiction has won several Hugo and Nebula...
Issue 153
Apex Magazine is a digital dark science fiction and fantasy genre zine that features award-winning short fiction, essays, and interviews. Established in 2009, our fiction has won several Hugo and Nebula...
I’m already dead. All that’s left is the waiting. The first thing I did—after trying to restart the engines, after doing the math, after uselessly calling for help, after all...
One Last Light to Guide Me Home
I’m already dead. All that’s left is the waiting. The first thing I did—after trying to restart the engines, after doing the math, after uselessly calling for help, after all...
Welcome to another Words for Thought. Somehow, the calendar has turned over again. The end of one year and the beginning of another can be a time for reflection and...
Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review
Welcome to another Words for Thought. Somehow, the calendar has turned over again. The end of one year and the beginning of another can be a time for reflection and...
In the Apex flash fiction contest, for the month of November, we read stories rising from the theme of ‘Folklore.’ While we received an abundance written from international perspectives, with...
Intellectual Colonialism and the Erasure of South and Eastern European Writin...
In the Apex flash fiction contest, for the month of November, we read stories rising from the theme of ‘Folklore.’ While we received an abundance written from international perspectives, with...