As I left college and moved on with my life, the thought occasionally came up from time to time—especially when I fell ill—that there was some connection between boredom and creative thinking.
Read MoreGet Bored
I wanted to at least try and do my own thing, and here I am 9 years later. It was probably the best decision I’ve made in my career.
Read MoreInterview with Artist Tom Edwards
Frederick says I shouldn’t spend so much time with dead things. He warns that I, too, might atrophy and ossify.
Read MoreThe Art the Owls Can’t Swallow
It felt like the details were forming a relay race, where the baton they were passing off to each other was the reader’s understanding. I had to keep adjusting the racers.
Read MoreInterview with Author Sara S. Messenger
I dress up as a clown and let people beat me up in the alley behind the cybermotel. The first man who ever did this to me, he was my best friend.
Read MoreThe Clown Watches the Clown
Rakesfall is not a book to be devoured. It’s one to be consumed in slow and wondering bites, chewed over for days or years or perhaps millions of eons, depending on which part of the book you’re at.
Read MoreBook Review: Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera
His white skin looked even more pale in monochrome. In the final chapters, he had worn his officer’s uniform, to remind me of his country’s authority over my city.
Read MoreOut of Print
Summer is coming, and because we’re at Apex, it approaches with all the disarmingly bright and lovely charm of Midsommar. We’ve got some good stuff in store for you this June and can’t wait to share!
Read MoreApex in June 2024
Near the center of the space, a worktable, and a loom—and the Matron. She sits at her loom, just as she has every evening long after the world has gone to sleep.
Read MoreAbode