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ByM.M. Olivas

The Man Who Fed Dilophosaurs

We’d drag our wagon of fresh-slaughtered beef up the rocky path, our flashlights cutting beams beneath the violet sky. I called him Yusef because he didn’t like Father or Dad or Papá.

ByNadia Radovich

Then came the ghost of my mother, my mother, my mother, my mother, my mother, my mother, my mother, my mother, my.

Then Came the Ghost of My Dead Mother, Antikleia

You remember Mama pulling you out of line, hands like cobwebs. They say you can go, baby, she said, her voice the reedy, remembered voice of shades.

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2023 Apex Magazine Reader’s Choice Awards

Voting for our annual Reader’s Choice Awards opens today, January 15, and will close on January 30th.

ByMarissa van Uden

An interview with nadine bango by marissa van wende.

Interview with Author Nadia Bongo

What I discovered about the character is really that love of listening. It developed as I wrote the story.

ByNadia Bongo

Born a Ghost

The day I was born in Mwana hospital in Libreville, Mother realized that I was born to become a ghost.

ByBradley Powers

Interview with Artist Adrian Borda

I find it impossible to find a meaningful starting point to my journey in art, and there might never be a clear end of it.

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Issue 142, with Original Fiction by Delilah S. Dawson, Nadia Bongo, KT Bryski, and Elisabeth Ring. Flash Fiction by Nadia Radovich and Kanishk Tantia. Classic Fiction by M.M. Olivas and Eugen Bacon. Essays by Somer Canon and John Wiswell.

ByLesley Conner

Musings from Maryland

We’re kicking off 2024 with tales that are unsettling and creepy.

ByDelilah S. Dawson

Spread the Word

I’m tall because I’m actually a year older, but they don’t need to know about what happened last year. This is a do-over.