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NOVEL EXCERPT: The Wicked by James Newman
On the evening of August 12, 2002, a fire raged on the outskirts of Morganville, North Carolina. Into the early hours of the morning it raged, higher and higher, as...
NOVEL EXCERPT: The Wicked by James Newman
On the evening of August 12, 2002, a fire raged on the outskirts of Morganville, North Carolina. Into the early hours of the morning it raged, higher and higher, as...

FREE SHORT FICTION: Greener Pastures by Michael Wehunt
Forsyth glanced up out of his thoughts. The man standing at his table was big and worn out, his eyes raw and heavy even in the shadow of his cap’s...
FREE SHORT FICTION: Greener Pastures by Michael Wehunt
Forsyth glanced up out of his thoughts. The man standing at his table was big and worn out, his eyes raw and heavy even in the shadow of his cap’s...

EDITOR INTERVIEW: Mahvesh Murad (The Apex Book of World SF: Volume 4)
Mahvesh Murad, a book reviewer and podcast host of Midnight in Karachi for Tor.com, is stepping into the editor role for our fourth volume of The Apex Book of World...
EDITOR INTERVIEW: Mahvesh Murad (The Apex Book of World SF: Volume 4)
Mahvesh Murad, a book reviewer and podcast host of Midnight in Karachi for Tor.com, is stepping into the editor role for our fourth volume of The Apex Book of World...

NOVEL EXCERPT: The Lost Level by Brian Keene
My name is Aaron Pace, and I’m writing this by hand in a spiral-bound, college-ruled notebook that I found in a student’s backpack inside of an abandoned school bus. All...
NOVEL EXCERPT: The Lost Level by Brian Keene
My name is Aaron Pace, and I’m writing this by hand in a spiral-bound, college-ruled notebook that I found in a student’s backpack inside of an abandoned school bus. All...

FREE SHORT FICTION: A Hollow Play by Amal El-Mohtar
Emily stood in the doorway to the Rio Cafe and looked around, half–convinced she had the wrong place. The word “cabaret” had conjured up visions of illicit underground doings populated...
FREE SHORT FICTION: A Hollow Play by Amal El-Mohtar
Emily stood in the doorway to the Rio Cafe and looked around, half–convinced she had the wrong place. The word “cabaret” had conjured up visions of illicit underground doings populated...

FREE SHORT FICTION: Such & Such Said to So & So by Maria Dahvana Headley
The cocktails there had always been dangerous, but now they were poison. We got the call in at the precinct, and none of us were surprised. We all knew the...
FREE SHORT FICTION: Such & Such Said to So & So by Maria Dahvana Headley
The cocktails there had always been dangerous, but now they were poison. We got the call in at the precinct, and none of us were surprised. We all knew the...

NOVEL EXCERPT: Severance by Chris Bucholz
Bright blue light obliterated everything. She jumped back, falling on her ass, scrambling backwards like a crab, one hand clamped over her eyes. A piercing noise filled the air around...
NOVEL EXCERPT: Severance by Chris Bucholz
Bright blue light obliterated everything. She jumped back, falling on her ass, scrambling backwards like a crab, one hand clamped over her eyes. A piercing noise filled the air around...