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Alison called all over the city trying to find a restaurant that served blowfish, but there wasn’t one. She settled for Chinese. She would court an MSG attack. And if none came, then she’d been craving red bean sauce anyway. On the way to the restaurant, Alison chose not to wear her seat belt.Damnatio Ad Beastias

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4,400 Words The angel lets Elena out of the house for two hours to go to her friend’s birthday party. Such reprieves come few and far between, and Elena jumps at it, even if she can’t remember exac…short fiction | Apex Magazine

4,000 Words “I fell,” said the cyborg, and for a moment his audience stood astounded, waiting for the larger speech, the longer explanation. None came. “I fell,” he said once, and spoke no further.…Elena’s Angel

7,400 Words In the flickering amber torchlight, the mummy’s skin was burnished sienna where Jackson peeled the rotting bandages off. When Jackson pressed fore and middle fingers to the slender coll…Hiraeth: Tragedy in Four Acts

5,000 Words We ate all the spiders we could find. It was the easiest way. Once they decided they wanted to be inside you, it was better to choke the damn things down than have them crawl into your …The Three-tongued Mummy

6,200 Words 1. “There’s a marked difference between brain functions, knowledge, and mental potentials,” Martin Hull said to Marilee Frith-DeGeorgio at Mike’s Steaks on 47th Street just east of Gran…How Lovely Is the Silence of Growing Things

[Colorado, 1877] Willie Kennard rode into the town of Duffy dangerously late, looking back over his shoulder at the height of the sun and squinting. He dropped down from the old mare he’d borrowed …Cut, Cut, Cut

1680 Words Translated by Alex Shvartsman. You were thirty-five when you parked your pickup truck in front of that damned diner. A single poor decision that would make you hate yourself for the rest…Sundown

3,900 words A millipede wends its way across the grimy ceiling. I stretch out in the bed, let loose a satisfied yawn, and freeze. Where the fuck am I? Off-white walls peek through peeling wallpaper…Black Hole Heart

5,000 Words The summer sky was stacking dark clouds when Pau trudged up from the concrete gullet of the parkade. Sweat stuck his shirt to the small of his back and the biolocked handle of his Ceyla…Welcome to Astuna

3,900 Words But really, the whole damn country is haunted. Every community theatre has an old actor who won’t leave the lights behind; every college and university has a pretty co-ed who hanged her…L’appel du vide

4,500 Words “My order said plank house,” Skinny Charlie told the clerk. “Teepee isn’t the same as plank house.” The images on the glowing sign faded before resetting. The spinning letters dropped d…Bad Penny

Skinny Charlie’s Orbiting Teepee

5,000 Words Listen to the Apex Magazine Podcast narration of “If a Bird Can Be a Ghost.” Shelly’s grandma teaches her about ghosts, how to carry them in her hair. If you carry your ghos…Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™

7,200 Words In most respects, the universe (which some call the Library) is everywhere the same, and we at the summit are like the rest of you below. Like you, we dwell in a string of hexagonal lib…If a Bird Can Be a Ghost

6,700 Words Thistle stepped over an upturned root that twisted from the dark, wet earth. “Your mama live near the river?” “Naw.” “Your mama live in a tree?” “Nope.” “Then what we doing?” “Mama the …THE TURING MACHINES OF BABEL

7,400 Words From beyond the ghetto walls come the peal of church bells; pure and clear, clear and pure the sound fills the night above the ghetto, and Shomer and the children stop and listen to it,…Tree of the Forest Seven Bells Turns the World Round Midnight

4,000 Words Listen to the audio version of “Penelope Waits” Penelope waited for Odysseus. A whole house full of suitors, some of whom had to be pretty hot, and she gave none of them the…My Struggle