Short Fiction
Short Fiction from issues of Apex Magazine
La Ciguapa, For the Reeds, For Herself
SHORT FICTION: Have you lost me yet? The trick question, as if I am something to be found and kept, locked in your chest of bones.
Read MorePrism
SHORT FICTION: First it’s in my toes, like they’re being suckled on by a mouth full of battery acid; then my feet buzz, pins and needles in my soles before a bigger, more insistent spasm shoots up my calves.
Read MoreFor Southern Girls When the Zodiac Ain’t Near Enough
FICTION: The woman you go to see for your reading isn’t old, but her eyes have aged more than her skin as if she’s seen horrors but hasn’t learned to hide them.
Read MoreThe Whipping Girls
SHORT FICTION: Erika’s fingers tense on the steering wheel as she approaches the Kansas-Colorado state line. Endless fields of wheat, waiting to be harvested, sit on both sides of the interstate, the stalks rustling whisper-soft.
Read MoreAll Clear
SHORT FICTION: When the security alarm rang out, Zhang Dong was at the very peak of the village, thinking about family.
Read MoreKerouac’s Renascence
FICTION: Dear Sis, Since the onset of my symptoms, I’ve been saving the last pages in the leather-bound notebook you gifted me…
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