That 2024 looks out of place, but in a few weeks we'll be used to it. We hope the end of 2023 is a positive conclusion for all our readers and supporters and that the new year is greeted with anticipation and hope. We've published some amazing fiction this year and are grateful to each and every one of you for being with us on this journey.
Read MoreApex in January 2024
I shook my head carefully. Normally, the blindfold wouldn’t slip, but I was thinning, transforming into a living corpse.
Read MoreWoman Embracing Woman, on Loan From Private Collection
Her touch was like dry ice, foreign and painful, yet warm to the point of hot and I’d been so, so cold, shivers still ran through me with each stroke.
Read MoreBirds
At the heart of it, I feel that exploring those interior spaces is what a spiritual practice is all about. Once you peek into that expanse, it’s hard not to remain curious.
Read MoreInterview with Artist Peter Mohrbacher
One raises her hands to her face, bouncing up and down on the balls of her feet. In turns, they hug the fifth girl and each other and then all walk out of the camera’s view together.
Read MoreTwenty Pieces of Documentation Presented to the Emergency Committee on the Study and Understanding of the M3D1154 Contagion
We asked our wonderful Apex community to recommend a story we published this year and to say something about why it stood out or was meaningful to them. Here's what they said!
Read MoreApex Community Recommended Reads 2023!
New Sci Fi Animation is “the Citizen Kane of Balloon Noir movies”
Read MoreLoontown by Lavie Tidhar: A New Animated Film
For my part, I live a spectral life. My career in fiction and nonfiction focuses on ghosts and ghost stories.
Read MoreBetween the Dreaming and the Dead
ve-streaming critique series.
Every quarter, industry professionals Lesley Conner, Rebecca E Treasure, and a special guest offer live feedback on the first page (up to 250 words) of genre short stories or novels. These first pages are read aloud by our talented host and narrator, Aly Grauer.
We are pleased to announce that our special guest editor for this event is author and editor Brent Lambert!
Read MoreSnap Judgment Episode 9