Apex Magazine
Auxiliary, Supplementary, Inessential
The two newer adjuncts are sharing their teaching dreams. I look up, smile, and go back to my notebook, pretending I am writing something important. It’s not that I haven’t...
Auxiliary, Supplementary, Inessential
The two newer adjuncts are sharing their teaching dreams. I look up, smile, and go back to my notebook, pretending I am writing something important. It’s not that I haven’t...
Apex in September 2024
Apex welcomes you to the declining months of 2024. Join us under the dying leaves, amidst the turbulent winds, and read what our authors have to share. Issue 146 Issue...
Apex in September 2024
Apex welcomes you to the declining months of 2024. Join us under the dying leaves, amidst the turbulent winds, and read what our authors have to share. Issue 146 Issue...
Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review
Welcome to another Words for Thought! The five stories discussed this time around all deal with the idea of being seen, whose stories get told and how, and who has...
Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review
Welcome to another Words for Thought! The five stories discussed this time around all deal with the idea of being seen, whose stories get told and how, and who has...
Intertwined
Our tattoos find each other. My black snake slithers off my shoulder and curls itself around his dragon. “This yours?” he says, holding out his arm where the two tattoos...
Intertwined
Our tattoos find each other. My black snake slithers off my shoulder and curls itself around his dragon. “This yours?” he says, holding out his arm where the two tattoos...
I Was a Twelve-Year-Old Black Boy Who Wanted to be a Bene Gesserit
I first read Frank Herbert's Dune when I was about eight or nine years old. It was on my older sister's bookshelf. Her room was up the steps from mine,...
I Was a Twelve-Year-Old Black Boy Who Wanted to be a Bene Gesserit
I first read Frank Herbert's Dune when I was about eight or nine years old. It was on my older sister's bookshelf. Her room was up the steps from mine,...
Loss Prevention
The Embark Center was a master class in bland government green. Not just the doors, walls, and cracked floors, but also the waiting area seats and the armrests with their...
Loss Prevention
The Embark Center was a master class in bland government green. Not just the doors, walls, and cracked floors, but also the waiting area seats and the armrests with their...
Interview with Author Marie Croke
In “A Lullaby of Anguish,” two sisters, Cassia and Antonia, carry the guilt of their past with them in different ways, but they share two things: the experience of being...
Interview with Author Marie Croke
In “A Lullaby of Anguish,” two sisters, Cassia and Antonia, carry the guilt of their past with them in different ways, but they share two things: the experience of being...