Apex Magazine: Issue 35
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Apex Magazine is a monthly science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction from many of the top pros of the field. New issues are released on the first Tuesday of every month.
Table of Contents
Fiction:
"Love is a Parasite Meme" by Lavie Tidhar
"The Second Card of the Major Arcana" by Thoraiya Dyer
"Alternate Girl's Expatriate Life" by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz
Nonfiction:
"Editorial: Blood on Vellum" by Lynne M. Thomas
"World SF: Our Possible Future" by Charles Tan
"Interview with Lavie Tidhar" by Stephanie Jacob
Cover art by Raúl Cruz.
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Apex Magazine - Lynne M. Thomas
Apex Magazine
International SF Themed Issue
Guest Edited by Lavie Tidhar
Smashwords Edition
Copyrights & Acknowledgments
Love is a Parasite Meme
Copyright 2011 by Lavie Tidhar
The Second Card of the Arcana Major
Copyright 2011 by Thoraiya Dyer
Alternate Girl’s Expatriate Life
Copyright 2011 by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz
No Poisoned Comb
Copyright 2011 by Amal El-Mohtar
World SF: Our Possible Future
Copyright 2011 by Charles Tan
Interview with Lavie Tidhar
Copyright 2011 by Stephanie Jacob
Publisher—Jason Sizemore
Editor-in-Chief—Lynne M. Thomas
Senior Editor—Gill Ainsworth
Assistant Editor—Maggie Slater
Interview Editor—Stephanie Jacob
Submission Editors—Zakarya Anwar, Mari Adkins, George Galuschak, Deanna Knippling, Sarah E. Olson, Lillian Cohen-Moore, Olga Zelanova, Patrick Tomlinson, Sigrid Ellis, Michael Damian Thomas, and Travis Knight.
ISSN: 2157-1406
Apex Publications
PO Box 24323
Lexington, KY 40524
Please visit us at http://www.apex-magazine.com.
Cover art by Raul Cruz
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FICTION
Love is a Parasite Meme
Lavie Tidhar
The Second Card of the Major Arcana
Thoraiya Dyer
Alternate Girl’s Expatriate Life
Rochita Loenen-Ruiz
POETRY
No Poisoned Comb
Amal El-Mohtar
NONFICTION
World SF: Our Possible Future
Charles Tan
Interview with Lavie Tidhar
Stephanie Jacob
LOVE IS A PARASITE MEME
Lavie Tidhar
Love is a parasite meme,
she’d told him once. It would have been Amsterdam, with the poisoned canals and a gibbous moon, made green with atmospheric pollution, gloaming over Station Centraal.
They did not like to use the word love, what they had was something else, a shared loneliness—
He called himself Job because when the world turns rotten all around you, like God’s goddamned apple left out for the snakes, when it kills your family and what friends you had and the neighbours and the neighbours’ dog, then it’s trying to sell you something even while it fucks you.
You’re a blank,
she used to tell him. They saw each other periodically—under the burnt-out stump of the Tour Eiffel in Paris they had fucked because she wouldn’t say making love, she said you couldn’t, really, not anymore—and later, as they became cold, he tried to deny it.
I had a life,
he said. But I could never explain it adequately to people. I was a composite, I never lived in just one place or spoke a single language. I grew up on a kibbutz in Israel, for fuck sakes. Hardly anyone comes from Israel. I’ve lived in the places we used to call South Africa, and in London and Laos—
Why is it always London and not the United Kingdom?
she said, stretching.
Because London is a world, not a city,’ he said.
It was, not is," she said.
I spoke English and Hebrew and Bislama and I could swear in Afrikaans and Thai,
he said, though he lied—he had never got the hang of tonal languages and his Thai had been limited to numbers at the market. I moved around, I had no cultural anchor.
You must have been happy when the world ended,
she said, astutely.
Job never replied to that. She didn’t require a reply. She knew.
The end of the world had been a fucking relief.
In Paris he had spent a long winter once sheltering in an abandoned bookstore on the left bank of the Seine, by Notre Dame. He’d been alone in all of Paris that year, but for a presence he could not explain. Walking through the empty streets of the Latin Quarter at night sometimes he’d hear music, chansons d’amour echoing through the stone houses crowded close together, as though someone, nearby were playing old vinyl records on a gramophone, the quality of the music scratched and old and battered. He hated the invisible player of the music, had hunted for him, but the music and its master evaded him, growing distant the closer he got.
There had only been him