In Flanders Fields
By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918)
Canadian Army

IN FLANDERS FIELDS the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In …

APEX Holiday Subscription Drive – Win free stuff!
(Re-post of the BorgDude’s post at Apex)
All right, folks…we haven’t done one of these in about 1.5 years. The time is ripe for a new subscription drive.
I want to increase our per word pay rate. To do this, we need more subscribers.
Here are the goals.
1) If we can get 100 new subscriptions in the month of November, I can raise the new rate to 2.5 cents per word.
2) If we can get 200 new subscriptions in the month of November, I can raise …

Happy Halloween, everybody!
The celebrity panel of Cherie Priest, Jennifer Pelland, and Edmund Schubert has spoken.
1st Place – “Curve Balls in the Rift” by Durand Welsh
Runner Up – “Post Apocalypse” by James W. Langolf
The panel wanted to give Honorable Mentions to the following stories:
“Freak Museum” by Jackie Gamber
“Shiners” by Joel Arnold
“Pest Control” by Robby Sparks
“Charlie’s Voice” by Bev Vincent
Again, I’d like to thank Cherie Priest, Jennifer Pelland, and Edmund Schubert for taking the time to judge the finalists. A big thanks goes out to Gill Ainsworth who helped me read through …

Introducing, The Courting Morpheus Authors
In no particular order, and no title spoilers:
M.R. Sellars
Jeff Parish
Brandon Layng
Louise Bohmer
Camille Alexa
Bruce Barber
J. Daniel Seffens
Donna M. Shelton
Nancy Kolodziej
Kevin J. Hurtack
David de Beer
Ann Tupek
Geoffrey Girard
Congratulations, folks – I look forward to months of whip…er…working with you!
Courting Morpheus – the tales of authors and their muses suffering the evil that is New Bedlam…or is it they themselves that have unleashed the evil on the town? Sleep is as elusive as the answers they seek…and the end word just won’t come.

‘They couldn’t keep them confined.
Now they’re out …