Apex Magazine Podcast
106 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★ - 36 ratingsA monthly podcast of fiction from the Hugo award-nominated Apex Magazine
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Origin Story
January 02, 2018 14:00 - 29 minutes - 40.7 MB"Origin Story," by Ursula Vernon (writing as T. Kingfisher) -- published in Apex Magazine, issue 104, January 2018. Read it here: http://www.apex-magazine.com/origin-story/ Ursula Vernon is the winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Mythopoeic Awards. She has written a number of children’s books, short stories, and comics, and writes for adults under the name T. Kingfisher. She likes fairy-tale retellings, gardening, and has strong opinions about heirloom beans. You can find more of her work at...
Behind Her, Trailing Like Butterfly Wings
December 05, 2017 14:00 - 46 minutes - 63.7 MB"Behind Her, Trailing Like Butterfly Wings," by Daniela Tomova -- published in Apex Magazine, issue 103, December 2017. Read it here: https://www.apex-magazine.com/behind-her-trailing-like-butterfly-wings/ Daniela Tomova was born in the ruins of countless civilizations and experienced first-hand yet another empire fall when she was only 8 years old. Her surreal, animal-filled childhood lives in stories which, while true, have nonetheless earned her the nickname Keyser Söze. She left he...
An Unexpected Boon
November 07, 2017 14:00 - 59 minutes - 81.9 MB“An Unexpected Boon”—Published in Apex Magazine, issue 102, November 2017. Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/an-unexpected-boon/ S.B. Divya is a lover of science, math, fiction, and the Oxford comma. She enjoys subverting expectations and breaking stereotypes whenever she can. Her short stories have been published at Lightspeed, Tor.com, and other magazines, and her novella ‘Runtime,’ was a Nebula Award finalist. Her writing also appears in the indie game Rogue Wizards. Divya is t...
Penelope Waits
October 03, 2017 13:00 - 30 minutes - 41.3 MB"Penelope Waits," by Dennis Danvers -- published in Apex Magazine issue 101, October 2017. Read it here: https://www.apex-magazine.com/penelope-waits/ Dennis Danvers has published eight novels, including NYT Notables Circuit of Heaven and The Watch, and Locus and Bram Stoker nominee Wilderness. His eighth novel, Bad Angels, was published in 2015. Short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Intergalactic Medicine Show, Space and Time, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, F & SF, Realms...
The Man in the Crimson Coat
September 05, 2017 13:18 - 39 minutes - 54.4 MB“The Man in the Crimson Coat”—Published in Apex Magazine, Issue 100, September 2017. Read it here: https://www.apex-magazine.com/the-man-in-the-crimson-coat/ Andrea Tang is a DC-based word scribbler and international affairs wonk who sometimes writes about geopolitical security and sometimes writes about fictional murder robots, depending on who’s asking. When not hunched over a notebook misusing her imagination, she’s known to enjoy theater, music, and martial arts. Drop by for a hello...
If a Bird Can Be a Ghost
August 01, 2017 14:00 - 36 minutes - 83.1 MB"If a Bird Can Be a Ghost" by Allison Mills -- published in Apex Magazine issue 99, August 2017. Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/if-a-bird-can-be-a-ghost/ Allison Mills is a Cree and settler writer, archivist, librarian, and researcher with a thing about ghosts. Allison’s critical work has appeared in The Looking Glass and in Archivaria, where it won the 2016 Dodds Prize. She currently lives and works on unceded Musqueam, Tsleil-Waututh, and Squamish land in Vancouver, BC. This...
L'appel du vide
July 04, 2017 15:48 - 36 minutes - 83.1 MB“L’appel du Vide”—Published in Apex Magazine, Issue 98, July 2017. Read it here: https://www.apex-magazine.com/lappel-du-vide/ Rich Larson was born in West Africa, has studied in Rhode Island and worked in Spain, and now writes from Ottawa, Canada. His short work has been featured on io9, translated into Chinese, Vietnamese, Polish, French and Italian, and appears in numerous Year’s Best anthologies along with most pro-paying SF markets. Find him at https://richwlarson.tumblr.com and su...
Welcome to Astuna
June 06, 2017 13:00 - 27 minutes - 63.1 MB“Welcome to Astuna”—Published in Apex Magazine, Issue 97, June 2017. Read it here: https://www.apex-magazine.com/welcome-to-astuna/ Pip Coen is supposedly a neuroscientist. They even gave him a PhD and everything. But real brains are frustratingly complicated, so he often writes about fictional ones instead. In his spare time, he can be found playing poker, hitting the snooze button, or adding a new pin to his travel map. He is a graduate of the Clarion Writers’ Workshop at UCSD, and hi...
How Lovely Is the Silence of Growing Things
May 02, 2017 13:08 - 31 minutes - 73.4 MB“How Lovely Is the Silence of Growing Things”—Published in Apex Magazine, Issue 96, May 2017. Read it here: https://www.apex-magazine.com/how-lovely-is-the-silence-of-growing-things/ By day, Evan Dicken studies old Japanese maps and crunches data for all manner of fascinating medical experiments at The Ohio State University. By night, he does neither of these things. His fiction has most recently appeared in: Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Unlikely Story, and Flash Fiction Online, and he has...
Aunt Dissy's Policy Dream Book
April 04, 2017 12:56 - 41 minutes - 95.3 MB“Aunt Dissy’s Policy Dream Book”—Published in Apex Magazine, Issue 95, April 2017. Read it here: https://www.apex-magazine.com/aunt-dissys-policy-dream-book/ Sheree Renée Thomas, a native of Memphis, is the author of Sleeping Under the Tree of Life (Aqueduct Press, August 2016), recently named on the 2016 James Tiptree, Jr. Award “Worthy” Long List, Shotgun Lullabies, and the editor of the World Fantasy Award-winning Dark Matter anthologies. Read her short stories and poems in Sycorax’s...
Waste
March 08, 2017 16:22 - 28 minutes - 66 MB”Waste”—Published in Apex Magazine issue 94, March 2017. Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/waste/ Mary Elizabeth Burroughs is a graduate of Clarion Writers’ Workshop at UC San Diego and University of Mississippi’s MFA program. A native of Florida, she now lives in Sydney, Australia where she teaches English to high school students. Her published fiction has appeared in Black Static, Phantom Drift: A Journal of New Fabulism, and Bloodchildren: Stories by the Octavia E. Butler Sch...
You Too Shall Be Psyche
February 07, 2017 14:13 - 36 minutes - 83 MB”You Too Shall Be Psyche” by Rich Larson -- published in Apex Magazine issue 93, February 2017. Read it here: https://www.apex-magazine.com/you-too-shall-be-psyche/ Rich Larson was born in West Africa, has studied in Rhode Island and worked in Spain, and now writes from Ottawa, Canada. His short work has been featured on io9, translated into Polish and Italian, and appears in numerous Year’s Best anthologies as well as in magazines such as Asimov’s, Analog, Clarkesworld, F&SF, Interzo...
Mag, the Habitat and We
January 03, 2017 13:40 - 22 minutes - 50.6 MB”Mag, the Habitat and We” by Lia Swope Mitchell -- published in Apex Magazine issue 92, January 2017. Read it here: http://www.apex-magazine.com/mag-the-habitat-and-we/ Lia Swope Mitchell is a writer, translator, editorial assistant, and PhD candidate in French literature at the University of Minnesota. Consequently she often feels overwhelmed by a multitude of small tasks. She lives in Minneapolis. This Apex Magazine podcast was performed and produced by Mahvesh Murad. Music used wi...
Uncontainable
December 06, 2016 14:28 - 29 minutes - 66.6 MB”Uncontainable” by Helen Stubbs -- published in Apex Magazine issue 91, December 2016. Read it here: http://www.apex-magazine.com/uncontainable Helen Stubbs writes stories that are dark with pointy edges published in anthologies and magazines including The Never Never Land, Midnight Echo, and Winds of Change. She interviews for Galactic Chat and the Australian SF Snapshot. In 2010 she won the Worldcon short story competition and in 2015 she won a Ditmar Award for Best New Talent in Aus...
Every Winter
November 03, 2016 13:47 - 31 minutes - 72.5 MB”Every Winter” by E. Catherine Tobler -- published in Apex Magazine issue 90, November 2016. Read it here: http://www.apex-magazine.com/every-winter/ Catherine Tobler has never slept in a haunted French villa — but you should ask her about the haunted house near her childhood home sometime. Among others, her fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, and on the Sturgeon Award ballot. Follow her on Twitter @ECthetwit or her website, www.ecatherine.com. This Apex Magazine podcas...
Damnatio Ad Beastias
October 04, 2016 12:32 - 43 minutes - 99.8 MB”Damnatio Ad Bestias” by Kristi DeMeester -- published in Apex Magazine issue 89, October 2016. Read it here: http://www.apex-magazine.com/damnatio-ad-bestias/ Kristi DeMeester received her M. A. in Creative Writing from Kennesaw State University in 2011. Since then her work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications such as Black Static, The Dark, Year’s Best Weird Fiction Volumes 1 and 3, and several others. Her chapbook, Split Tongues, published by Dim Shores Press, sold out...
The Warrior Boy Who Would Not Suffer
September 06, 2016 12:00 - 31 minutes - 72.1 MB”The Warrior Boy Who Would Not Suffer” by Alexandria Baisden -- published in Apex Magazine issue 88, September 2016. Read it here: http://www.apex-magazine.com/the-warrior-boy-who-would-not-suffer/ Abhinav Bhat is a writer from Jammu & Kashmir, India. He has jumped without a parachute. A fantasy novel popped out some way down, followed by a few short stories, one of which you are reading. We’ll let you know whether he goes splat or flies. He can be contacted midair at abhinavb2014@ema...
The Gentleman of Chaos
August 02, 2016 13:00 - 30 minutes - 70.8 MB”The Gentleman of Chaos” by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor — published in Apex Magazine issue 87, August 2016. Read it here: http://www.apex-magazine.com/the-gentleman-of-chaos/ Merc Fenn Wolfmoor is a queer non-binary writer who lives in Minnesota with two adorable cats (Tater Tot photos frequently grace all Merc’s social media). Merc is a Nebula Awards finalist, and their stories have appeared in Lightspeed, Fireside, Apex, Uncanny, Nightmare, Escape Pod, and several Year’s Best anthologies....
Lazarus and the Amazing Kid Phoenix
July 12, 2016 14:43 - 54 minutes - 125 MB"Lazarus and the Amazing Kid Phoenix" by Jennifer Giesbrecht -- published in Apex Magazine issue 86, July 2016. Read it here: http://www.apex-magazine.com/lazarus-and-the-amazing-kid-phoenix/ Enjoy our interview with the author here: http://www.apex-magazine.com/interview-with-author-jennifer-giesbrecht/ Jennifer Giesbrecht is a native of Halifax, Nova Scotia where she earned her degree in History and Methodology. She’s a freelance editor, multi-disciplinary nerd, and a graduate of ...
Folk Hero
June 07, 2016 13:30 - 32 minutes - 22.8 MB”Folk Hero”—Published in Apex Magazine issue 85, June 2016. Read it here: https://www.apex-magazine.com/folk-hero/ Mary Pletsch is a glider pilot, toy collector and graduate of the Royal Military College of Canada. She attended Superstars Writing Seminars in 2010 and has since published short stories and novellas in a variety of genres including science fiction, steampunk, fantasy, and horror. She lives in New Brunswick with Dylan Blacquiere and their four cats. Visit her online at www....
1957
May 03, 2016 13:30 - 30 minutes - 21.2 MB”1957” by Stephen Cox --published in Apex Magazine issue 84, May 2016. Read it here: https://www.apex-magazine.com/1957-stephen-cox/ Stephen Cox lives in London.He's editing a novel which is repped by Rob Dinsdale of A M Heath. Previous stories include one in Lightspeed and one in the Apiary collection,Tudor Close. He tweets erratically at @stephenwhq. This Apex Magazine Podcast was performed and produced by Lisa Shininger. Music used with kind permission of Oh, Alchemy! Apex Magazine ...
The Teratologist’s Brother
April 05, 2016 13:30 - 40 minutes - 28.6 MB”The Teratologist’s Brother” by Brandon H. Bell -- published in Apex Magazine issue 83, April 2016. Read it here: https://www.apex-magazine.com/the-teratologists-brother/ Brandon H. Bell's writing has appeared in markets including The Lovecraft eZine, Hadley Rille Books, and Questioncopyright.org. He was the editor of Fantastique Unfettered magazine and the Torn Pages anthology. He is a husband, a father of daughters, and a Buddhist. He strives to be a good ally to GLBTQ and other un...
Death Flowers of Never-Forgotten Love
March 01, 2016 14:30 - 12 minutes - 9.06 MB”Death Flowers of Never-Forgotten Love”—Published in Apex Magazine issue 82, March 2016. Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/death-flowers-of-a-never-forgotten-love/ Jason Sanford is an award-winning author of short stories, essays, and articles and an active member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Jason has published more than a dozen of his short stories in the British SF magazine Interzone, which once devoted a special issue to his fiction. His fiction h...
The Four Gardens of Fate
February 02, 2016 14:30 - 26 minutes - 18.7 MB"The Four Gardens of Fate"—Published in Apex Magazine issue 81, February 2016. Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/the-four-gardens-of-fate/ Betsy Phillips's short stories have appeared in Betwixt, Beyond Borderlands, Eurynome, and Qarrtsiluni, as well as various anthologies. She is the author of A City of Ghosts and The Wolf's Bane. Apex Magazine was the first place to publish her, a fact she has never forgotten. Neither have her detractors. She lives in Whites Creek, Tennessee with ...
The Open-Hearted
January 05, 2016 14:30 - 34 minutes - 24.1 MB“The Open-Hearted” —Published in Apex Magazine issue 80, January 2016. Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/the-open-hearted/ Lettie Prell likes to explore the edge where humans and their technology are increasingly merging. Her science fiction stories have appeared in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Apex Magazine, and its Book of Apex anthology, and elsewhere. Her work has also been featured on the StarShipSofa podcast. She is an active member of SFWA. This Apex Magazine Podcast was...
She Gave Her Heart, He Took Her Marrow
December 01, 2015 14:30 - 41 minutes - 28.8 MB“She Gave Her Heart, He Took Her Marrow”—Published in Apex Magazine issue 79, December 2015. Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/she-gave-her-heart-he-took-her-marrow/ Sam Fleming’s work has appeared in Black Static, Fish from Dagan Books, and Looking Landwards from NewCon Press. She lives in north-east Scotland with an artistic spouse and the correct number of bicycles, that being both entirely too many and not quite enough. Find her at ravenbait.com. This Apex Magazine Podcast w...
Blood on Beacon Hill
November 03, 2015 12:30 - 46 minutes - 32.2 MB“Blood on Beacon Hill”—Published in Apex Magazine issue 78, November 2015. Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/blood-on-beacon-hill/ Russell Nichols is a speculative fiction writer and endangered journalist. He writes about race, class, and other human myths. Raised in Richmond, CA, he now lives on the road, out of a backpack with his fairytale freak of a wife (current location: India). This is his first pro-rate sale to a fiction magazine. Look for him at russellnichols.com. This ...
When the Fall is All That’s Left
October 06, 2015 13:30 - 14 minutes - 10.3 MB“When the Fall is All That’s Left”—Published in Apex Magazine issue 77, October 2015. Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/when-the-fall-is-all-thats-left/ Arkady Martine is a speculative fiction writer and, as Dr. AnnaLinden Weller, a Byzantine historian. In both roles she writes about border politics, rhetorical propaganda, and liminal spaces. She was a student at Viable Paradise XVII. Arkady grew up in New York City and currently lives in Uppsala, Sweden. Find her online at arkady...
Six Things We Found During the Autopsy
September 01, 2015 13:30 - 6 minutes - 5.33 MB"Six Things We Found During the Autopsy"—Published in Apex Magazine issue 76, September 2015. Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/six-things-we-found-during-the-autopsy/ Indian writer Kuzhali Manickavel's short fiction collections are Things We Found During the Autopsy and Insects Are Just like You and Me except Some of Them Have Wings, and echapbook Eating Sugar, Telling Lies. Her work has also appeared in Granta, Agni, Subtropics, and elsewhere. This Apex Magazine Podcast wa...
Not My Circus, Not My Monkeys: The Elephant’s Tale
August 04, 2015 13:07 - 23 minutes - 16.4 MB“Not My Circus, Not My Monkeys: The Elephant’s Tale”—Published in Apex Magazine issue 75, August 2015. Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/not-my-circus-not-my-monkeys-the-elephants-tale/ Damien Angelica Walters’ work has appeared or is forthcoming in various anthologies and magazines, including The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2015, Year’s Best Weird Fiction: Volume One,The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu: New Lovecraftian Fiction, Nightmare Magazine, and Black Static. She was a fina...
Going Endo
July 07, 2015 13:30 - 18 minutes - 13.3 MB“Going Endo”—Published in Apex Magazine issue 74, July 2015. Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/going-endo/ Rich Larson was born in West Africa, has studied in Rhode Island and Edmonton, Alberta, and at 23 now works in a small Spanish town outside Seville. His short work has been nominated for the Theodore Sturgeon and appears in multiple Year’s Best anthologies, as well as in magazines such as Asimov’s, Clarkesworld, F&SF, Interzone, Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, BCS, and Apex. Fi...
Inhabiting Your Skin
June 02, 2015 13:26 - 23 minutes - 16.9 MB"Inhabiting Your Skin"—Published in Apex Magazine issue 73, June 2015. Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/inhabiting-your-skin/ Mari Ness has published fiction and poetry in multiple venues, including Tor.com, Clarkesworld, Daily Science Fiction, and right here at Apex Magazine. You can follow her official blog at marikness.wordpress.com, or on Twitter as @mari_ness. She lives in central Florida, where she is still trying to figure out how to program the convection oven/microwave. ...
A Sister's Weight In Stone
May 05, 2015 13:30 - 28 minutes - 19.9 MB"A Sister's Weight In Stone"—Published in Apex Magazine issue 72, May 2015. Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/a-sisters-weight-in-stone/ JY Yang has held seven jobs in four industries in under a decade. The one thing enduring this mess has been her endeavours as a speculative fiction writer. She has had short stories published in markets both Singaporean (Ceriph, Fish Eats Lion, From The Belly Of The Cat) and international (Clarkesworld, Crossed Genres, Strange Horizons). A gradua...
Beatification of the Second Fall
April 07, 2015 13:30 - 27 minutes - 19.6 MB"Beatification of the Second Fall"—Published in Apex Magazine issue 71, April 2015. Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/beatification-of-the-second-fall/ In his day job, Sean Robinson works with at risk youth in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. He is a graduate of the Stonecoast MFA, and a semi-professional fire breather (the two probably aren't related). His work has appeared in Daily Science Fiction, Betwixt, and Apex Magazine. You can follow him on Twitter (infrequently) @Ke...
Houdini's Heart
March 03, 2015 13:34 - 28 minutes - 19.9 MB"Houdini’s Heart"—Published in Apex Magazine issue 70, March 2015. Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/houdinis-heart/ Thoraiya Dyer is an award-winning Australian writer. Her short science fiction and fantasy stories have appeared in Clarkesworld, Apex, Analog, Nature and Cosmos, among others (for a full list, see www.thoraiyadyer.com ). Her collection of four original stories, Asymmetry, available from Twelfth Planet Press, was called "unsettling, poignant, marvellous" by Nancy Kres...
Requiem, for Solo Cello
February 03, 2015 14:30 - 10 minutes - 7.4 MB"Requiem, for Solo Cello"—Published in Apex Magazine issue 69, February 2015. Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/requiem-for-solo-cello/ Damien Angelica Walters’ short fiction has appeared in various magazines and anthologies, including Year’s Best Weird Fiction Volume One, The Best of Electric Velocipede, Strange Horizons, Nightmare, Lightspeed, Shimmer, Apex Magazine, Streets of Shadows, What Fates Impose, and Glitter & Mayhem. Paper Tigers, a novel, will be released in late 20...
Pocosin
January 06, 2015 13:46 - 27 minutes - 19.8 MB"Pocosin"—Published in Apex Magazine issue 68, January 2015. Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/pocosin/ Ursula Vernon is the author of the Hugo Award winning comic “Digger” and numerous children's books. She writes for adults under the name T. Kingfisher. She lives in North Carolina and gardens, if you can call it that. Find her online at www.tkingfisher.com. This Apex Magazine Podcast was performed and produced by Lisa Shininger. Music used with kind permission of Oh, Alchemy!...
Anthracite Wedding
December 02, 2014 14:30 - 35 minutes - 25 MB"Anthracite Wedding"—Published in Apex Magazine issue 67, December 2014 Read it here: https://www.apex-magazine.com/anthracite-weddings/ John Zaharick grew up close to a mine fire destroyed town in rural Pennsylvania. He has worked as an assistant editor for a weekly newspaper, earned a master's degree in ecology, and currently lives in Minnesota where he supports the Baltimore Science Fiction Society long distance. His fiction has appeared in several magazines, including AE, Not One of...
Candy Girl
November 04, 2014 14:30 - 28 minutes - 20.2 MB"Candy Girl"—Published in Apex Magazine issue 66, November 2014. Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/candy-girl/ Chikodili Emelumadu is a Nigerian writer and broadcaster living in London. When she is not writing, she spends her time looking for a way through platform 9¾ in Kings’ Cross station, Yggdrasil or any other portals between worlds – she’s not picky. She has been published in Eclectica magazine, Luna Station Quarterly and the now defunct Running Out of Ink magazine. She is w...
The House in Winter
October 07, 2014 13:30 - 33 minutes - 23.4 MB"The House in Winter"—Published in Apex Magazine Issue 65, October, 2014 Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/the-house-in-winter/ Jessica Sirkin wrote her first speculative fiction story after reading Ray Bradbury's "The Veldt" in seventh grade. Now, between her day job as a technology journalist and her nighttime fiction writing habit, she spends more time typing than she does pretty much anything else. Jessica lives in Boston with her partner and their pet rabbit. This Apex Maga...
Economies of Force
September 02, 2014 13:30 - 37 minutes - 26.5 MB"Economies of Force"—Published in Apex Magazine issue 64, September 2014. Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/economies-of-force/ Seth Dickinson’s fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, Analog, Strange Horizons, and more. He is a writer at Bungie Studios, an instructor at the Alpha Workshop for Young Writers, and a lapsed student of social neuroscience. His first novel, The Traitor Baru Cormorant, will be published by Tor Books in fall 2015. This Apex Magazine Podcast was perfo...
Jupiter and Gentian
August 05, 2014 13:30 - 18 minutes - 13.5 MB"Jupiter and Gentian"—Published in Apex Magazine issue 63, August 2014. Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/jupiter-and-gentian/ Erik Amundsen has been removed from display for being zoologically improbable and/or terrifying to small children. He has been sighted in Weird Tales, Fantasy Magazine, Not One of Us and Jabberwocky but his natural habitat is central Connecticut. This Apex Magazine Podcast was performed by Chikodili Emelumadu and produced by Erika Ensign. Music used w...
The Food in the Basement
July 01, 2014 13:30 - 16 minutes - 12.2 MB"The Food in the Basement"—Published in Apex Magazine issue 62, July 2014. Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/the-food-in-the-basement/ Laura Davy lives in California with her husband and two cats. She wrote her first story when she was in Elementary School and, despite the fact that the plot didn't make sense, she kept on writing. You canmlearn more about her at www.lauradavy.com. This Apex Magazine Podcast was performed by Windy Bowlsby and produced by Erika Ensign. Music us...
The Soul of Soup Bones
June 03, 2014 13:08 - 28 minutes - 19.9 MB"The Soul of Soup Bones"—Published in Apex Magazine issue 61, June 2014. Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/soul-of-soup-bones/ Crystal Lynn Hilbert lives in the forgotten backwaters of Western Pennsylvania, subsisting mostly on old trade paperbacks and tea. Her novellas Dead on Arrival and The Trickster Edda are currently available on Amazon.com, courtesy of Eggplant Literary Productions. This Apex Magazine Podcast was performed by Windy Bowlsby and produced by Erika Ensign. Mus...
Not Smart, Not Clever
May 06, 2014 13:30 - 32 minutes - 23.1 MB"Not Smart, Not Clever"—Published in Apex Magazine issue 60, May 2014. Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/not-smart-not-clever/ E.Saxey lectures at the University of London, and has had short fiction published in Holdfast Magazine, Spacewitch Moonshots, and anthologies The Lowest Heaven and The Rite of Spring (Jurassic London). This Apex Magazine Podcast was performed by Windy Bowlsby, Tim Wick, and Lolly Foy and was produced by Erika Ensign. Music used with kind permission o...
Repairing the World
April 01, 2014 13:30 - 32 minutes - 23 MB"Repairing the World"—Published in Apex Magazine issue 59, April 2014. Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/repairing-the-world/ John Chu designs microprocessors by day. He writes fiction, narrates for podcasts, and translates fiction from Chinese into English by night. His stories have been published or are forthcoming in Boston Review, Asimov’s Science Fiction, and Tor.com among others. This Apex Magazine Podcast was performed by Windy Bowlsby and produced by Erika Ensign. Mus...
Waking
March 04, 2014 13:45 - 30 minutes - 21.4 MB"Waking" —Published in Apex Magazine issue 58, March 2014. Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/waking/ Cat Hellisen lives in Cape Town, South Africa, and writes stories that smell of iodine and dead fish. She's the author of the fantasy novels When the Sea is Rising Red, and House of Sand and Secrets. This Apex Magazine Podcast was performed by Windy Bowlsby and produced by Erika Ensign. Music used with kind permission of Oh, Alchemy! Apex Magazine Podcast, copyright Apex Pu...
Maria and the Pilgrim
February 04, 2014 14:30 - 24 minutes - 17.7 MB"Maria and the Pilgrim"—Published in Apex Magazine issue 57, February 2014. Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/maria-and-the-pilgrim/ Rich Larson was born in West Africa, has studied in Rhode Island, and at 21 now lives in Edmonton, Alberta. He was a finalist for the 2013 Dell Award and received the 2012 Rannu Prize for Writers of Speculative Fiction. In 2011 his cyberpunk novel Devolution was a finalist for the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. His short work has since received hon...
Jackalope Wives
January 07, 2014 14:30 - 32 minutes - 22.8 MB"Jackalope Wives"—Published in Apex Magazine issue 56, January 2014 Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/jackalope-wives/ Ursula Vernon is the author and illustrator of the Hugo Award–winning graphic novel Digger as well as the author of the Dragonbreath series of children's books. She blogs at Red Wombat Studio, and podcasts fiction at The Hidden Almanac. She lives in North Carolina and does weird things to plants. This Apex Magazine Podcast was performed by Windy Bowlsby and p...
What You've Been Missing
December 03, 2013 14:30 - 19 minutes - 14 MB"What You've Been Missing"—Published in Apex Magazine issue 55 December 2013. Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/what-youve-been-missing/ Maria Dahvana Headley is the author of the dark fantasy/alt-history novel Queen of Kings, and the internationally bestselling memoir The Year of Yes. Her Nebula-nominated short fiction has recently appeared in Lightspeed, Subterranean, Nightmare, The Journal Of Unlikely Entomology, Glitter & Mayhem, Jurassic London's The Lowest Heaven and The B...