Apex Magazine » Short Fiction
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Here you can find short fiction stories from Apex Magazine. Read the content that make up the core of our publication. Come discover the unique flavor of our fiction. Apex Magazine is an online zine of fantastical fiction. We publish short stories filled with marrow and passion, works that are twisted, strange, and beautiful.
Apex Magazine » Short Fiction
6d ago
When the news said three more young men had been found dead in their homes, Grace knew her mother had come to town ..read more
Apex Magazine » Short Fiction
1w ago
We’ve travelled for weeks to find something like this—not the planet, but its ring, swirling iridescent with icy blues and silver. A bounty of water ..read more
Apex Magazine » Short Fiction
2w ago
When the candles extinguish themselves, lick the hot wax from the metal, until it is shiny and clean ..read more
Apex Magazine » Short Fiction
2w ago
But the ferns have turned Papa's thoughts to slow, ponderous things, moving the way a fighter does just before they hit the ground. Fresh fiddleheads unfurl from his skin each night, bobbing merrily with his breath each morning ..read more
Apex Magazine » Short Fiction
3w ago
I crawl out of the persimmon, and it isn’t pretty. A grown woman unfolding from a fruit that could fit into your hand: sinew restringing itself, organs inflating, nails clawing at the floor ..read more
Apex Magazine » Short Fiction
1M ago
The rain fell slantwise to beat against the picture window in the front room. In the next room over, Dear was dying ..read more
Apex Magazine » Short Fiction
1M ago
He said it was a hole, right there in the middle. In the middle, he emphasized in a voice that was a little too excitable for what I needed in my life at the moment ..read more
Apex Magazine » Short Fiction
1M ago
When kids are adopted from the orphan home, they’re carried away on the back of a nimble cow, its hooves clanking on the road, the sound dampening across the woods while the white lines scrawling the skies turn to dots ..read more
Apex Magazine » Short Fiction
1M ago
On New Year’s Eve, she wants the story of Headless Jenny ..read more