Words for Thought

APEX MAGAZINE

Strange. Surreal. Shocking. Beautiful.

APEX MAGAZINE

Strange. Surreal. Shocking. Beautiful.

A.C. Wise reviews and recommends recent short fiction loosely based around a theme.

AC Wise reviews some of the more interesting recent stories published.

Despite the general bleakness of the season, this month's stories are all about new beginnings and seconds chances.

This month's reviews focus on stories of loneliness and isolation, but stories that offer hope as well.

Reviews of of uneasy and haunting tales about hidden things being revealed that stick with you long after you finish reading them.

This month's reviews are of stories about assumptions, perceptions, and characters who are more than they seem beneath the surface of their skin.

Reviews of stories about isolation, people cut off from society and humanity

This month's reviews are stories of families by choice, and families by blood - losing them, finding them, and trying to understand them.

Reviews of stories about new worlds, new modes of existence, and shifting to new ways of thinking after encountering the unknown.

Reviews of stories about what it mean to control your own destiny, what it means to simply be a character is someone else's story?