Apex Magazine Series

Apex Magazine is an online digital zine of genre short fiction.   EDITORIAL Blood on Vellum by Lynne M. Thomas   FICTION So Glad We Had This Time Together by Cat Rambo Sweetheart Showdown by Sarah Dalton The Prowl by Gregory Frost   NONFICTION Writing About Rape by Jim C. Hines   INTERVIEW Interview with Gregory Frost by Maggie Slater

Apex Magazine is an online digital zine of genre short fiction.   EDITORIAL Words from the Editor-in-Chief by Jason Sizemore   FICTION Child, Funeral, Thief, Death by Tade Thompson Six Things We Found During the Autopsy by Kuzhali Manickavel Find Me by Isabel Yap Frozen Planet by Marian Womack Mountain by Liu Cixin   NONFICTION The Invention of Speculative Fiction in Spain by Cristina Jurado Clavis Aurea: A Review of Short Fiction by Charlotte Ashley   INTERVIEWS Interview Saad Z. Hossain by Charles Tan Interview with Zen Cho by Charles Tan Interview with Ekaterina Zagustina by Russell Dickerson   POETRY Dysmorphia by Anne Carly Abad The Dissection by Christina Sng   NOVEL EXCERPTS Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho Escape from Baghdad! by Saad Z. Hossain

Apex Magazine is a science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction. EDITORIAL Words from the Editor-in-Chief—Jason Sizemore FICTION A Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies — Alix Harrow Work, and Ye Shall Eat — Walker McKnight Ghost Marriage — P. Djeli Clark Excerpt: Return to the Lost Level — Brian Keene NONFICTION Interview with Alix Harrow — Andrea Johnson Interview with Cover Artist Justin Adams — Russell Dickerson A Discussion with Tal M. Klein, Author of The Punch Escrow — Lesley Conner COLUMNS Between the Lines with Laura Zats and Erik Hane Page Advice with Mallory O'Meara and Brea Grant

Apex Magazine is an online digital zine of genre short fiction.   EDITORIAL Blood from Vellum by Lynne M. Thomas   FICTION Victimless Crimes by Charlie Jane Anders A Matter of Shapespace by Brian Trent Sister Twelve: Confessions of a Party Monster by Christopher Barzak   NONFICTION Fantasy Art, Fishnets, and Red Sonya's Chainmail Bikini by Tansy Rayner Roberts   INTERVIEW Interview with Christopher Barzak by Maggie Slater

Apex Magazine is an online digital zine of genre short fiction.   FICTION "Armless Maidens of the American West" by Genevieve Valentine "Murdered Sleep" by Kat Howard "Waiting for Beauty" by Marie Brennan "Undercity" by Nir Yaniv   NONFICTION "Editorial: Blood on Vellum" by Lynne M. Thomas "Mighty Axes and Beer-Soaked Beards: The Portrayal of Dwarves in Fantasy" by Jim C. Hines "An Interview with Genevieve Valentine" by Maggie Slater

Apex Magazine is a monthly science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction. EDITORIAL Words from the Editor-in-Chief—Jason Sizemore FICTION Tumbledown — Kameron Hurley The Man in the Crimson Coat — Andrea Tang Bad Penny — Carrie Laben The Lightning Bird — Kristi DeMeester While the Black Stars Burn — Lucy A. Snyder NONFICTION Interview with Kameron Hurley — Andrea Johnson Apex at 100: An Introspective — Jason Sizemore and et al. In Space, Can Anyone Hear Your Philosophy?: A Look at Alien and Philosophy with Editor/Contributor Jeffrey Ewing — M. B. Sutherland Interview with Cover Artist Carolina Rodiguez Fuenmayor — Russel Dickerson

Apex Magazine is a monthly science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction. EDITORIAL Words from the Editor-in-Chief—Jason Sizemore FICTION My Struggle — Lavie Tidhar So Sings the Siren — Annie Neugebauer Penelope Waits — Dennis Danvers The Case of the Mysterious Meat — Kate Ingram Tree of the Forest Seven Bells Runs the World Round Midnight — Sheree Renée Thomas Haven, Kansas (Novel Excerpt) by Alethea Kontis NONFICTION Interview with Dennis Danvers — Andrea Johnson 8-Bit Rage, Black Hole Zion, Industrial Music, and Science Fiction — Ed Grabianowski Interview with Cover Artist Rubén Castro — Russel Dickerson

Apex Magazine is a science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction. Double issue special! EDITORIAL Words from the Editor-in-Chief—Jason Sizemore FICTION Asylum of Cuckoos — Lila Bowen To Blight a Fig Tree Before It Bears Fruit — Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley A Night Out at a Nice Place — Nick Mamatas The Heaven-Moving Way — Chi Hui Symphony to a city under the stars — Armando Saldaña The Ghost Stories We Tell Around Photon Fires — Cassandra Khaw The Best Friend We Never Had — Nisi Shawl Origin Story — T. Kingfisher NONFICTION Interview with Lila Bowen (Delilah S. Dawson) — Andrea Johnson Interview with Cover Artist Daniele Serra — Russel Dickerson Orrin Evans: The Pioneer of Black Comic Book Publishing — Shawn Pryor Fear of Failure 2.0 — Damien Angelica Walters POETRY Treebound — Mary Soon Lee Monster: Puppeteer — Mary Soon Lee the saddest of angels — Jeremy Paden COLUMNS Between the Lines with Laura Zats and Erik Hane Page Advice with Mallory O'Meara and Brea Grant

Apex Magazine is a science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction. EDITORIAL Words from the Editor-in-Chief — Jason Sizemore SHORT FICTION The Chariots, the Horsemen — Stephanie Malia Morris When You're Ready — M. Ian Bell Kerouac's Renascence — Tal M. Klein All Clear — Hao He The Whipping Girls — Damien Angelica Walters NONFICTION Interview with Stephanie Malia Morris — Andrea Johnson Interview with Cover Artist Kim Myatt — Russell Dickerson Undead: The Making of a Poetry Anthology — Katerina Stoykova Nexhuman: From Origin to Translation: The Long Path from Italy to the US — Francesco Verso Five Things to Remember When Running a Writer's Convention — Kelly Swails and Melanie R. Meadors COLUMNS Between the Lines with Laura Zats and Erik Hane Page Advice with Mallory O'Meara and Brea Grant POETRY the undead — Allison Thorpe Ghost Ships — Amy MacLennan

Apex Magazine is a science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction. EDITORIAL Words from the Editor-in-Chief—Jason Sizemore FICTION Stars So Sharp They Break the Skin — Matthew Sanborn Smith Mother Jones and the Nasty Eclipse — Cherie Priest Cherry Wood Coffin — Eugenia Triantafyllou Luisah's Church — Nisi Shawl Fifteen Minutes Hate — Rich Larson Cold Blue Sky — JE Bates NONFICTION Interview with Matthew Sanborn Smith — Andrea Johnson Interview with Cover Artist Anna Dittmann — Russell Dickerson How I Learned to Follow My Own Advice and Let It Go — Tobias S. Buckell Signal Intrusion — Kirk Jones COLUMNS Between the Lines with Laura Zats and Erik Hane Page Advice with Mallory O'Meara and Brea Grant

Apex Magazine is a science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction. EDITORIAL Words for Thought—Jason Sizemore FICTION Field Biology of the Wee Fairies—Naomi Kritzer River Street—S.R. Mandel Coyote Now Wears a Suit—Ani Fox A Siren's Cry Is a Song of Sorrow—Stina Leicht Talking to Cancer—Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali NONFICTION The Apex Book of World SF: Volume 5—Cristina Jurado The Power of Anger, Acceptance, and Affirmation in Dirty Computer—Lashawn M. Wanak COLUMNS Page Advice—Mallory O'Meara and Brea Grant Between the Lines with the Print Run Podcast—Laura Zats and Erik Hane INTERVIEWS Interview with Author Naomi Kritzer—Andrea Johnson Interview with Cover Artist Joel Chaim Holtzman—Russell Dickerson

Apex Magazine is a science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction. EDITORIAL Words from the Editor-in-Chief—Jason Sizemore FICTION Suzie Q — Jacqueline Carey Three Meetings of the Pregnant Man Support Group — James Beamon A Different Kind of Place — Tobias S. Buckell Close Your Eyes (Excerpt) — Paul Jessup NONFICTION Interview with James Beamon — Andrea Johnson Interview with Cover Artist Sin and May — Russell Dickerson Mindy St. Claire and the Male Gaze (Or Lack Thereof) — Mur Lafferty Countdown to Close Your Eyes — Paul Jessup COLUMNS Between the Lines with Laura Zats and Erik Hane Page Advice with Mallory O'Meara and Brea Grant

Apex Magazine is a monthly science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction. EDITORIAL Words from the Editor-in-Chief—Jason Sizemore FICTION An Unexpected Boon — S.B. Divya Untilted — K.A. Teryna (translated by Alex Shvartsman) The Dude Who Collected Lovecraft — Nick Mamatas & Tim Pratt NONFICTION Interview with S.B. Divya — Andrea Johnson The Sublet, Terrifyingly Familiar: A Feature and Interview with Director John Ainsley — Lesley Conner Interview with Cover Artist Max Mitenkov — Russel Dickerson COLUMNS Between the Lines with Laura Zats and Erik Hane Page Advice with Mallory O'Meara and Brea Grant

Apex Magazine is an online digital zine of genre short fiction.   EDITORIAL Blood on Vellum by Lynne M. Thomas   FICTION Becca at the End of the World by Shira Lipkin Grey in the Gauge of His Storm by Damien Angelica Walters An Assault of Color by Mari Ness Shatter by Kelly McCullough   NONFICTION A Hammer with an Edge: Swords in Fantasy Literature by Douglas Hulick First Intermission: The Day the Movies Came Knocking at My Door or 'I'm Ready for My Close-up, Mr. DeMille!' by Gary A. Braunbeck   INTERVIEW Interview with Kelly McCullough by Lynne M. Thomas

Apex Magazine is a science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction. EDITORIAL Words from the Editor-in-Chief — Jason Sizemore FICTION On the Day You Spend Forever with Your Dog — Adam R. Shannon Girls Who Do Not Drown — A.C. Buchanan Captain Midrise — Jim Marino The Man Who Has Been Killing Kittens — Dee Warrick NONFICTION Interview with Author Adam R. Shannon — Andrea Johnson Interview with Cover Artist Ronnie Jensen — Russell Dickerson The Princess and the Quest — Alethea Kontis Young, Gifted, and Black: My First Gen Con Experience — Isabella Faidley

Apex Magazine is a science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction EDITORIAL Words from the Editor-in-Chief—Jason Sizemore FICTION Clap Your Hands — Andrew F. Kooy The Sharp Edges of Anger — Jamie Lackey Murders Fell From Our Wombs — Tlotlo Tsamaase What to Do When It's Nothing but Static — Cassandra Khaw NONFICTION Interview with Andrew F. Kooy — Andrea Johnson Interview with Cover Artist Chase Henson — Russell Dickerson Lovecraft and the Occult — Mary SanGiovanni My Road Trip with David Koresh — Jerry Gordon COLUMNS Between the Lines with Laura Zats and Erik Hane Page Advice with Mallory O'Meara and Brea Grant

Apex Magazine is a monthly science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction. EDITORIAL Words from the Editor-in-Chief—Jason Sizemore FICTION Behind Her, Trailing Like Butterfly Wings — Daniela Tomova The Edge of Things — Katharine E.K. Duckett Cemetery Man — Silvia Moreno-Garcia NONFICTION Interview with Daniela Tomova — Andrea Johnson Interview with Cover Artist Clarissa Ferguson — Russel Dickerson COLUMNS Between the Lines with Laura Zats and Erik Hane Page Advice with Mallory O'Meara and Brea Grant

Apex Magazine is a science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction. Guest edited by Sheree Renée Thomas. Zodiac themed. EDITORIAL Under Ancient Stars, New Dreams Are Born—Sheree Renée Thomas SHORT FICTION Prism—Stefanie Elrick La Ciguapa, For the Reeds, For Herself—J.M. Guzman Gasping—Brandon O'Brien Jewel of the Vashwa—Jordan Kurella The Barnum Effect—Celia Neri POETRY How to Paint Mercury—Mary Soon Lee Capricorn—Tara Betts How to Fly by Neptune—Mary Soon Lee Celestial Mary (Galilean Daughter)—Sherese Francis How to Speak to Pluto—Mary Soon Lee A Theorized Form of Matter—Ashely Adams NONFICTION 'There's No Racism Here?' A Black Woman in the Dominican Republic—Kiini Ibura Salaam COLUMNS Page Advice—Mallory O'Meara and Brea Grant Between the Lines with the Print Run Podcast—Laura Zats and Erik Hane INTERVIEWS Interview with Author Eden Royce—Andrea Johnson Interview with Cover Artist Stacey Robinson—Russell Dickerson

Apex Magazine is a science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction. EDITORIAL Words from the Editor-in-Chief — Jason Sizemore FICTION The Pulse of Memory — Beth Dawkins The Great Train Robbery — Lavie Tidhar The Small White — Marian Coman Bone Song — Aja McCullough With These Hands — LH Moore NONFICTION Interview with Author Beth Dawkins — Andrea Johnson Interview with Cover Artist Tangmo Cecchini — Russell Dickerson Writing Wrongly — Daniel M. Bensen

Apex Magazine is a science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction. EDITORIAL Words from the Editor-in-Chief—Jason Sizemore FICTION Irregularity — Rachel Harrison We Are New(s) — Bentley A. Reese A Priest of Vast and Distant Places — Cassandra Khaw Three Petitions to the Queen of Hell — T.A. Pratt NONFICTION Interview with Rachel Harrison — Andrea Johnson Interview with Cover Artist Benedick Bana — Russell Dickerson A Wave on the Sea: Ursula K. Le Guin — Paul Jessup Persistence of Vision: Black Panther — ZZ Claybourne COLUMNS Between the Lines with Laura Zats and Erik Hane Page Advice with Mallory O'Meara and Brea Grant

Apex Magazine is a science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction. EDITORIAL Words from the Editor-in-Chief — Jason Sizemore FICTION Bargains by the Slant-Light — Cassandra Khaw The Standard of Ur — Hassan Abdulrazzak With Lips Sewn Shut — Kristi DeMeester For Sale: Fantasy Coffins — Chesya Burke NONFICTION Interview with Cassandra Khaw — Andrea Johnson Interview with Cover Artist Vinz El Tabanas — Russell Dickerson Someone Else's Sandbox — Tim Waggoner COLUMNS Between the Lines with Laura Zats and Erik Hane Page Advice with Mallory O'Meara and Brea Grant

Apex Magazine is a science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction. EDITORIAL Words from the Editor-in-Chief — Jason Sizemore FICTION The Crafter at the Web's Heart — Izzy Wasserstein Cold Iron Comfort — Hayley Stone Necessary and Sufficient Conditions — Wole Talabi Hole in the World (Novel Excerpt) — Brian Keene NONFICTION Interview with Author Izzy Wasserstein — Andrea Johnson Interview with Cover Artist Julia Griffin — Russell Dickerson The Anatomy of a Transfacial Child — Woody Dismukes

Apex Magazine is a science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction f EDITORIAL Words from the Editor-in-Chief — Jason Sizemore FICTION Professor Strong and the Brass Boys by Amal Singh All Votes Will Be Counted (We Promise) by Paul Crenshaw Face by Veronica Brush A Fool's Baneful Gallantry by Derek Lubangakene NONFICTION Interview with Author Amal Singh by Andrea Johnson Interview with Cover Artist Marcela Bolivar by Russell Dickerson The Pros and Cons of Stage Directions by Alethea Kontis

Strange. Beautiful. Shocking. Surreal. APEX MAGAZINE is a digital dark science fiction and fantasy genre zine that features award-winning short fiction, essays, and interviews. Established in 2009, our fiction has won several Hugo and Nebula Awards. EDITORIAL Editorial by Jason Sizemore ORIGINAL FICTION Barefoot and Midnight by Sheree Renée Thomas The Amazing Exploding Women of the Early Twentieth Century by A.C. Wise Black Box of the Terraworms by Barton Aikman If Those Ragged Feet Won't Run by Annie Neugebauer A Love That Burns Hot Enough to Last: Deleted Scenes from a Documentary by Sam J. Miller Las Girlfriends Guide to Subversive Eating by Sabrina Vourvoulias REPRINTED FICTION She Searches for God in the Storm Within by Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali The Eight-Thousanders by Jason Sanford INTERVIEWS Interview with Author Sabrina Vourvoulias by Andrea Johnson Interview with Author Annie Neugebauer by Andrea Johnson Interview with Cover Artist Thomas Tan by Russell Dickerson NONFICTION Jimi Hendrix Sang It by ZZ Claybourne Telling Stories of Ghosts by Wendy N. Wagner Words for Thought: Short Fiction Reviews by A.C. Wise

Strange. Beautiful. Shocking. Surreal. APEX MAGAZINE is a digital dark science fiction and fantasy genre zine that features award-winning short fiction, essays, and interviews. Established in 2009, our fiction has won several Hugo and Nebula Awards. Issue 124 contains the following: EDITORIAL Editorial by Jason Sizemore ORIGINAL FICTION Without Wishes to Bind You by E. Catherine Tobler How to Be Good by R Gatwood Osu by Kingsley Okpii Survival, After by Nicole J. LeBoeuf What Sisters Take by Kelly Sandoval Eilam Is Forever by Beth Dawkins REPRINTED FICTION The Fine Print by Chinelo Onwualu The Shadow We Cast Through Time by Indrapramit Das INTERVIEWS Interview with Author R Gatwood by Andrea Johnson Interview with Author Kelly Sandoval by Andrea Johnson Interview with Cover Artist Martina Boscolo by Russell Dickerson NONFICTION A Special Kind of Gaze: Meta-Representation in Science Fiction by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro Dialog, Patois: If It's Good Enough for Anthony Burgess, It's Good Enough for You by Tonya Liburd REVIEWS Review of The Best of World SF edited by Lavie Tidhar Review of Apocalypse Cancelled edited by Luke Melia Words for Thought: Short Fiction Reviews by A.C. Wise

Apex Magazine is an online short fiction zine of fantastical literature. We publish short stories filled with marrow and passion, works that are twisted, strange, and beautiful. Creations where secret places and dreams are put on display. TABLE OF CONTENTS Editorial by Jason Sizemore ORIGINAL FICTION Root Rot by Fargo Tbakhi Your Own Undoing by P H Lee Love, That Hungry Thing by Cassandra Khaw Mr. Death by Alix E. Harrow The Niddah by Elana Gomel Gray Skies, Red Wings, Blue Lips, Black Hearts by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor HOLIDAY HORRORS FLASH FICTION WINNER All I Want for Christmas by Charles Payseur CLASSIC FICTION The Ace of Knives by Tonya Liburd Roots on Ya by LH Moore INTERVIEWS Interview with Author Fargo Tbakhi by Andrea Johnson Interview with Author P H Lee by Andrea Johnson Interview with Cover Artist Vicki Be Wicked by Russell Dickerson NONFICTION Story-less: A Forethought by Usman T. Malik Trapped in Stories by Malka Older Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review by AC Wise

Apex Magazine is a science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction. EDITORIAL Musings from Maryland — Lesley Conner FICTION The Prison-house of Language by Elana Gomel Where Gods Dance by Ben Serna-Grey Curse Like a Savior by Russell Nichols Letty by Regina Bradley O Have You Seen the Devle with his Mikerscope and Scalpul? by Jonathan L. Howard NONFICTION Interview with Author Elana Gomel by Andrea Johnson Interview with Cover Artist Aaron Jasinski by Russell Dickerson The Art of Peace: Mari Evans' Legacy of Peaceful and Ethical Engagement by Tabitha Barbour

Apex Magazine is a science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction. EDITORIAL Words from the Editor-in-Chief — Jason Sizemore FICTION Master Brahms — Storm Humbert Godzilla vs Buster Keaton, Or: I Didn't Even Need a Map — Gary A. Braunbeck Toward a New Lexicon of Augury — Sabrina Vourvoulias Riding the Signal — Gary Kloster NONFICTION Interview with Author Storm Humbert — Andrea Johnson Interview with Cover Artist Godwin Akpan — Russell Dickerson Boy A, Girl A, Slender Man — Paul Jessup

Strange. Beautiful. Shocking. Surreal.   APEX MAGAZINE is a digital dark science fiction and fantasy genre zine that features award-winning short fiction, essays, and interviews. Established in 2009, our fiction has won several Hugo and Nebula Awards.   We publish every other month.   Issue 130 contains the following short stories, essays, reviews, and interviews.   EDITORIAL Musings from Maryland: Editorial by Lesley Conner   ORIGINAL FICTION Nine Theories of Time by Spencer Nitkey To Live and Die in Dixieland by Russell Nichols The First Promise We Break by Risa Wolf Tenure by Devon Mihesuah It Rises and Falls and Rises Again by RJ Taylor Strata by Benjamin Blattberg   CLASSIC FICTION An Arc of Electric Skin by Wole Talabi In the Garden of Ibn Ghazi by Molly Tanzer   NONFICTION Always and Forever by Milton J. Davis Never Let the Light Go Out by Linda D. Addison   REVIEWS Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review by A.C. Wise Book Review: A Spindle Splintered Alix E. Harrow (reviewed by Lesley Conner) Book Review: Sweep of Stars by Maurice Broaddus (reviewed by Tracy Robinson)   INTERVIEWS Interview with Author Spencer Nitkey by Andrea Johnson Interview with Author RJ Taylor by Andrea Johnson Interview with Cover Artist JR Slattum by Bradley Powers

Strange. Beautiful. Shocking. Surreal.   We are pleased to present a special issue focusing on Indigenous Futurists and guest-edited by Allison Mills.   APEX MAGAZINE is a digital dark science fiction and fantasy genre zine that features award-winning short fiction, essays, and interviews. Established in 2009, our fiction has won several Hugo and Nebula Awards.   We publish every other month.   Issue 126 contains the following:   EDITORIAL Indigenous Futurists—Editorial by Allison Mills   ORIGINAL FICTION Security Breach at Sugar Pine Suites by Pamela Rentz Happy Trails by Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr. Marked by Bears by Jessie Loyer Spirits of the Broken Lands by Kevin Wabaunsee When Evening Arrives by Tiffany Morris An Incident at Hellpoint Prime by Norris Black   CLASSIC FICTION A Brief Lesson in Native American Astronomy by Rebecca Roanhorse   INTERVIEWS Interview with Author Pamela Rentz by Rebecca E. Treasure Interview with Author Kevin Wabaunsee by Marissa van Uden Interview with Cover Artist Megan Feheley by Jason Sizemore   NONFICTION The Nature of a Natural Future by Sloane Leong   REVIEWS Words for Thought: Short Fiction Reviews by A.C. Wise