Genre Short Fiction - Apex Magazine

Small Hopes and Dreams

by Beth Dawkins | Nov 10, 2020 | Current Issue, Short Fiction | 0

There are two kinds of people; those who go over the wall, and those who stay behind. No one who goes over the wall is heard from again.

The Legacy of Alexandria

by Maurice Broaddus | Nov 10, 2020 | Current Issue, Short Fiction | 0

The gun-toting boys waved through a truck laden with supplies. Kerchiefs covered the faces of those who bothered to protect themselves at all. In a testament to their rugged image of manhood, most went without masks.

Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Memphis Minnie Sing the Stumps Down Good

by LaShawn W. Wanak | May 31, 2019 | Short Fiction | 2

Rosetta knelt to look at the stump in the corner of her client’s bedroom. It had the likeness of a ten-year-old boy, four feet tall, dressed in an oversized shirt and suspenders, and its features were flawless, from the newsboy’s cap cocked on its tight curls, to its pupil-less eyes fringed with long eyelashes.

When We Dream We Are Our God

by Wole Talabi | May 29, 2019 | Award Nominees, Short Fiction | 2

Today, in a small, quiet room near the centre of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, I went into the cold darkness of sleep and when I returned to the warm light of consciousness, I had become a god.

N-Coin

by Tobias S. Buckell | May 23, 2019 | Short Fiction | 2

You’ve heard of Bitcoin? You know what cryptocurrency is?

Face

by Veronica Brush | May 21, 2019 | Short Fiction | 3

You have to understand, I woke up one day, and if I’d had any sort of life before that day, I didn’t remember it.

Fugue State

by Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes | May 14, 2019 | Short Fiction | 0

“Shit,” Charlotte Berry whispered as the fog of sleep began to clear. She heard Arthur fumbling in the bathroom cabinet and saw his reflection in the mirror, salt-and-pepper hair and a small bald spot as he hunched over, a medicine bottle close to his face. She wanted to pretend he only needed reading glasses. But it was far worse than that.

Dune Song

by Suyi Davies Okungbowa | May 7, 2019 | Award Nominees, Short Fiction | 4

Do not go out to the dunes, the Chief says to Isiuwa. You’d do well not to awaken the wrath of the whistling gods.

A Fool’s Baneful Gallantry

by Derek Lubangakane | Apr 16, 2019 | Short Fiction | 0

At sunfall, the sellward, the spellcaster, and the wyrmrider paused at the foot of a dune and peered at the sun wester across the Sahael, the sea of sand. They had walked thirty days and were yet to come upon an oasis, caravan, or waykeep. At this rate, even a quick death seemed impossible.

All Votes Will Be Counted (We Promise)

by Paul Crenshaw | Apr 9, 2019 | Short Fiction | 2

When the Clausens got to the voting place, most of the town had already arrived. Clausen was tired from work, and tired of voting, but he tried to smile as he held Claudia’s hand and Jenny and Jimmy went up the steps in front of them.

Professor Strong and the Brass Boys

by Amal Singh | Apr 2, 2019 | Short Fiction | 2

I stand backstage, anxious. My cognitive implant, fed by a recursive code, tells me this is a bad idea. It tells me this decision is, as humans would say, impulsive. I am desperate. Desperate to make a good entrance. Desperate to make a point. Much of what has happened in the last few weeks would come to fruition today. The future of the droids in front of me depends on how I make this entrance. It could be good, or it could be bad. It could be so much worse.

O Have You Seen the Devle with his Mikerscope and Scalpul?

by Jonathan L. Howard | Mar 21, 2019 | Short Fiction | 3

Well. Look at you, Mary Ann Nichols, drinking in the Frying Pan.

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