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BySarah Pinsker

Dog is in the Details

Still, I will say it: if you want a pet who will actually help with your writing, an author's best friend is absolutely the dog.

ByA.M. Lomuscio

Nightglow Pizza

By every measure of life, CX2389 should be dead. Its star was more ash than fire. But, just as Fara had found on other worlds, life can thrive in the strangest of places.

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Strange locations an anthology of dark travel guides.

Submission Guidelines: Strange Locations Edited by Marissa van Uden

We are looking for speculative microfiction in the form of tourist brochures, travel blogs, and travel guides to the strangest, darkest places you can imagine.

ByMarissa van Uden

Interview with Author J.S. Breukelaar

I guess I was just thinking about corporatization—and what a deadly joke it is and how full of holes the hype is, and yet we buy it, literally.

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Issue 141, with Original Fiction by J.S. Breukelaar, A.M. Lomuscio, E. Catherine Tobler, Jolie Toomajan, Erica Satifka, and Damien Angelica Walters. Flash Fiction by Leah Ning and Liv Strom. Classic Fiction by R.J. Joseph and Zin E. Rocklyn. Essays by Sarah Pinsker and Leanna Renee Hieber.

ByLesley Conner

Musings from Maryland

This issue is full of stories that refuse to settle. They are loud and weird and dare to take you to places you didn’t know existed, let alone that you wanted to go.

ByJ.S. Breukelaar

Hole World

Apart from the rusting cars in the parking lot and the blood-spattered branches on the Eucalypts, the store looks much the same as it always did. Justin can do his job as he always had, mostly, except for the barbed manacle around his ankle.

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Holiday Horrors Drabble Contest

We are delighted to announce that our holiday horrors micro fiction contest has risen from its grave and is ready to terrorize the neighborhood once again.

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Apex in November 2023

It's hard to believe that we're coming up on the end of the year. The weather is turning cold in the north, warming up in the south. Trees are coming quietly awake or settling into their branches for the winter. In the darkest corners, things seen only in the pause between breaths slink nearer, seeking your love. We're staying busy at Apex, and we're grateful to you for being with us for the adventure.