Apex Magazine
Welcome to Apex Magazine issue 152. This month we bring you stories that push the boundaries of bizarre and twist the world we know into something strange and surreal. We...
Musings from Maryland
Welcome to Apex Magazine issue 152. This month we bring you stories that push the boundaries of bizarre and twist the world we know into something strange and surreal. We...
Once were a time on a jackalope when folks kept their thinking to themselves. People lived, and people died, natural-like, in this un-natural place. That was, ‘til the first un-natural...
Unsettled Nature
Once were a time on a jackalope when folks kept their thinking to themselves. People lived, and people died, natural-like, in this un-natural place. That was, ‘til the first un-natural...
Once were a time on a jackalope when folks kept their thinking to themselves. People lived, and people died, natural-like, in this un-natural place. That was, ‘til the first un-natural...
Unsettled Nature
Once were a time on a jackalope when folks kept their thinking to themselves. People lived, and people died, natural-like, in this un-natural place. That was, ‘til the first un-natural...
We are holding our annual Reader's Choice Awards from now through the end of January! Please vote for one piece of original fiction, one flash piece, and one cover. Winners...
2025 Reader's Choice Awards - Vote Now!
We are holding our annual Reader's Choice Awards from now through the end of January! Please vote for one piece of original fiction, one flash piece, and one cover. Winners...
Sharp chiaroscuro, snappy dialogue, actors with shadows delineating their faces—when we think noir, we tend to think film noir, from a small selection of canonical movies whose aesthetics and tropes...
More than Lighting: Speculative Noir
Sharp chiaroscuro, snappy dialogue, actors with shadows delineating their faces—when we think noir, we tend to think film noir, from a small selection of canonical movies whose aesthetics and tropes...
We burned her family’s bodies at noon. I paced a ritual circle of trampled ground around the fire and anchored the circle at the cardinal directions. Dawson’s cooking knife to...
Horse and Rider
We burned her family’s bodies at noon. I paced a ritual circle of trampled ground around the fire and anchored the circle at the cardinal directions. Dawson’s cooking knife to...