Table of Contents: Apex Magazine #67 (December 2014)
Here’s the table of contents for the new issue of Apex Magazine, a monthly science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction from many of the top pr…
TOC: Apex Magazine #48 (May 2013)
The Hugo-nominated Apex Magazine (edited by the multi-Hugo Award-winning Lynne M. Thomas) has posted the table of contents for the May 2013 issue:
TOC: Apex Magazine #42 (November 2012)
The Hugo-nominated Apex Magazine (edited by the multi-Hugo Award-winning Lynne M. Thomas) has posted the table of contents for the November 2012 issue (with cover art by Nicoletta Ceccoli): Fiction…
TOC: Apex Magazine #49 (June 2013)
The Hugo-nominated Apex Magazine (edited by the multi-Hugo Award-winning Lynne M. Thomas) has posted the table of contents for the June 2013 issue:
Back Issues – Apex Magazine
Read Issue 117 — February 2019 FICTION The Crafter at the Web’s Heart by Izzy Wasserstein Necessary and Sufficient Conditions by Wole Talabi Hole in the World (Excerpt) by Brian Keene C…
Back Issues 1-50 – Apex Magazine
Read Issue 50 — July 2013 FICTION To Die for Moonlight by Sarah Monette Abomination Rises on Filthy Wings by Rachel Swirsky The Constable of Abal by Kelly Link POETRY A Great Clerk of Necroma…
short fiction – Page 33 – Apex Magazine
A magazine of science Fiction, fantasy, and horror
The Selkie Wives | Apex Magazine
3,100 Words In the beginning, the story goes like this: a fisherman brings home a selkie wife. He spies the maidens bathing in the salt-cove by the sea, their great, glistening seal skins heaped on…
Issue 95 — April 2017 | Apex Magazine
Apex Magazine is a monthly science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction from many of the top pros of the field. New issues are released the first Tue…
Repairing the World | Apex Magazine
4900 Words By the time Lila and Bridger arrived, the sitting room floor was already part savannah. Yellow grass grew on dirt where hardwood had once been. The border between grass and floor hissed …
Paperclips and Memories and Things That Won’t Be Missed | Apex Magazine
750 Words The ghost in my attic is Margaret, but she lets me call her Margie. She was seventy–six years old when she died, and now that she’s a ghost she sits in her rocking chair day and night, ho…
Hiraeth: Tragedy in Four Acts
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.…
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
7,000 Words The blue pills came first. Robin’s egg blue and smelling faintly chemical when Madeline opened the bottle. Then yellow, and a green the color of scum that grew on the pond her landlord …
Girls Who Do Not Drown
SHORT FICTION: There are girls who stumble along the beach, barefoot, heels in one hand and a premixed drink in the other …
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
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…
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
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.…
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
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…
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
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 …
[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
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…
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
[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 …
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
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…
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 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…
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
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…
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
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…
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
7,200 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…
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
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 …
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
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,…
6,300 Words “Sit here.” He pulls out a thin panel from the front of his kiosk, punches it into the third dimension, then into its secondary function as a chair, and places it in front of me. “Here’…The Case of the Mysterious Meat
800 Words Survival of the Fictitiousest Winner It was hot. The kind of hot that would make the devil himself pull out a fan. Everywhere Mauve looked was blurry, either from heat rising off the pave…
5,500 Words I drove a brand-new rental car I couldn’t afford—next year’s model, so in a way it was a car from the future—from the Amherst Amtrak stop and into the Vermont countryside, which was jus…Behind Her, Trailing Like Butterfly Wings
6,300 Words “Sit here.” He pulls out a thin panel from the front of his kiosk, punches it into the third dimension, then into its secondary function as a chair, and places it in front of me. “Here’…
4,900 Words She lay bleeding upon her cartridge belts. She could not stand up. The piercing pain in her stomach would not allow it. Catalina raised her head, squinting. A man with a long coat, shin…The Dude Who Collected Lovecraft
5,500 Words I drove a brand-new rental car I couldn’t afford—next year’s model, so in a way it was a car from the future—from the Amherst Amtrak stop and into the Vermont countryside, which was jus…