Apex Magazine Issue 27 by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Apex Publications
Published: 2011-08-02T23:26:21+00:00

Rabbit Seagraves lives in Cary, North Carolina with a Boy, a Cat, and a head full of thieves, months, and tigers. Her work has previously appeared in the Blotter Magazine.

The Djinn Prince in America: A Microepic in 9 Tracks

by Saladin Ahmed

1: Astronomy and that dude across the street

The sky is a lonely shade of cobalt, the color of television spied through the windows of an ex-lover. A hard sliver of day-moon is visible, a wickedly curved bit of impossible silver like the manicured sci-fi fingernail of some high school hoochie who he never had a chance with poised to strike a precise puh-leease incision into his ventricles. On the smoke-scented streets, couples pass by, binary stars giving off residual light for thousands of years after the last burst of heat-energy. Him? He's nothing but a sputtering comet, glowing with the weak-ass purple of a faded Adidas sweatshirt, pushing his way through these cosmic dust clouds slowly, with a pathetic lack of pyrotechnics. All the while stale, self-pitying tongues of flame lap at the edges of his cold, rocky, center.

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