Vol. 154 · Quarterly · Edited by Lesley Conner
Strange.
Shocking.
Surreal. Beautiful.
A digital journal of fantastical fiction — stories filled with marrow and passion, twisted and strange, where secret places are put on display.
Cover art by Jeleynai
Format 01
The Quarterly eBook
Four times a year, the complete issue lands as a single volume — every story, interview, and essay. Yours to keep, read offline, in any reader.
Format 02
The Online Drip
Between quarterly releases the issue is poured out online, one piece at a time — a new story each week, free to read as it arrives.
Still Dripping
Scheduled to release
Beyond this issue
The complete short fiction archive
Every short story ever published in Apex Magazine, across all issues.
Ways to support
Closed to submissions
Send us your strange.
We're reading original short fiction, poetry, and nonfiction — dark, fantastical, and unafraid. Submissions go through Moksha during open windows.
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