Lesley Conner

Jason Sizemore

Strange. Surreal. Shocking. Beautiful. 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 138 contains the following short stories, essays, reviews, and interviews. EDITORIAL Editorial by Lesley Conner ORIGINAL SHORT FICTION The Relationship of Ink to Blood by Alex Langer Ncheta by Chisom Umeh Thank Mother for Your Life by Mary G. Thompson Chupa Sangre by Tre Harris Salas A World Unto Myself by P.A. Cornell Lady Koi-Koi: A Book Report by Suyi Davies Okungbowa FLASH FICTION Measure Twice, Cut Once by K.R. March Smoke Fire Wind Sea by Valerie Kemp CLASSIC FICTION A Mastery of German by Marian Denise Moore An Inventory of the Property of the Escaped Suspect, Confiscated at the Time of Her Arrest Following the Incident on Ash Street, with Annotations by Acting Sheriff Helena Fairwind by Tim Pratt NONFICTION Words Wielded by Women by Carina Bissett INTERVIEWS Interview with Author Alex Langer by Marissa van Uden Interview with Author Tre Harris Salas by Marissa van Uden Interview with Artist Robson Michel by Bradley Powers

Apex Magazine Issue 138

Apex Magazine, Issue 140, September 2023

Strange. Surreal. Shocking. Beautiful. 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 141 contains the following short stories, essays, reviews, and interviews. EDITORIAL Musings from Maryland by Lesley Conner ORIGINAL SHORT FICTION Hole World by J.S. Breukelaar Nightglow Pizza by A.M. Lomuscio Homewrecker by E. Catherine Tobler All the Good You Did Not Do by Jolie Toomajan Papas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Slug Monsters by Erica Satifka Twenty Pieces of Documentation Presented to the Emergency Committee on the Study and Understanding of the M3D1154 Contagion by Damien Angelica Walters FLASH FICTION Wet, Dry, Bitter by Leah Ning Woman Embracing Woman, on Loan From Private Collection by Liv Strom CLASSIC FICTION Bettina by R.J. Joseph Birds by Zin E. Rocklyn NONFICTION Dog is in the Details by Sarah Pinsker Between the Dreaming and the Dead by Leanna Renee Hieber Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review by AC Wise INTERVIEWS Interview with Author J.S. Breukelaar by Marissa van Uden Interview with Author Jolie Toomajan by Marissa van Uden Interview with Cover Artist Peter Mohrbacher by Bradley Powers

Apex Magazine Issue 141

Strange. Surreal. Shocking. Beautiful. 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 142 contains the following short stories, essays, reviews, and interviews. EDITORIAL Musings from Maryland by Lesley Conner ORIGINAL SHORT FICTION Spread the Word by Delilah S. Dawson Born a Ghost by Nadia Bongo Just You and Me, Now by KT Bryski When No One Has to Say Goodbye by Elisabeth Ring FLASH FICTION Then Came the Ghost of My Dead Mother, Antikleia by Nadia Radovich For As Long As You Want It by Kanishk Tantia CLASSIC FICTION The Man Who Fed Dilophosaurs by M.M. Olivas The Enduring by Eugen Bacon NONFICTION I Like Movies Too: Loving Movies Made for the Male Gaze by Somer Canon Horror Tells Me I’m Not Alone by John Wiswell Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review by AC Wise INTERVIEWS Interview with Author Nadia Bongo by Marissa van Uden Interview with Author Elisabeth Ring by Marissa van Uden Interview with Artist Adrian Borda by Bradley Powers

Apex Magazine Issue 142

The Compilation Anthology

Apex Magazine 2021

Marcela Bolívar

An Anthology of Defiance in Victory

Do Not Go Quietly

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 Musings from Maryland by Lesley Conner ORIGINAL SHORT FICTION "And She Had Been So Reasonable short story by Rachel Bolton" by Rachel Bolton "Birds of a Feather" by Rachael Severino "What Happens When a Planet Falls from the Sky?" by Danny Cherry Jr. Their Wings as Powdery as Bones by Avra Margariti Ceasing to Be by Garrett Ashley FLASH FICTION "Your Return to the Five Ruins of the Bog" by Parker M. O'Neill "Let Her Collect Stamps" by Juniper White CLASSIC FICTION "The Boy with the Golden Arm" by Danian Darrell Jerry "NPC (or Eight Haxploits to Maximize Your Endgame Farming: A Player's Guide)" by DaVaun Sanders NONFICTION "The Tyranny of High Concept" by Robert V.S. Redick "Pariahs" by Zohair REVIEWS Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review by A.C. Wise Book Review: Kerstin Hall's Asunder by Leah Ning Book Review: Layla Martinez's Woodworm by Lesley Conner INTERVIEWS Interview with Author Avra Margariti by Marissa van Uden Interview with Author Rachael Severino by Marissa van Uden Interview with Artist Asya Yordanova by Bradley Powers EXCERPT Island of the Dead by Brian Keene

Apex Magazine Issue 147

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 132 contains the following short stories, essays, reviews, and interviews. TABLE OF CONTENTS EDITORIAL What Say You by Jason Sizemore ORIGINAL SHORT FICTION Have Mercy, My Love, While We Wait for the Thaw by Iori Kusano Creatures of the Dark Oasis by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam A Country of Eternal Light by Jennifer R. Donohue Schlafstunde by Lavie Tidhar Your Space Between by Marie Croke Notes to a Version of Myself, Hidden in Symphonie fantastique Scores Throughout the Multiverse by Aimee Picchi CLASSIC FICTION Sky Boys by Kameron Hurley Chorus of Whispers by Sarah Hans NONFICTION Optics by Kwame Mbalia Stabilized Love Triangles: Tips on Writing OT3s From a Real Polyamorist by Michelle P. Browne Book Review: And What We Can Offer You Tonight by Premee Mohamed (Marissa van Uden) Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review by AC Wise INTERVIEWS Interview with Author Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam by Andrea Johnson Interview with Author Aimee Picchi by Marissa van Uden Interview with Cover Artist Galactic Nikita by Bradley Powers

Apex Magazine Issue 132

Our largest book to date! With stories by Alix E. Harrow, Sam J. Miller, Sheree Renée Thomas, Cassandra Khaw, and many more, Apex Magazine 2021 is a collection of darkly beautiful tales appearing originally in Apex Magazine January-December 2021. From a spaceship in the far-flung reaches of space to a cozy living room where a detective interviews a killer, this anthology explores the good and the ugly. It dissects what makes us human versus what makes us monsters. Within these pages, you will meet a golem that doesn’t know how to save its family, a group of robots debating whether they are alive, and a woman striving for that social media-perfect life. From parasitic twins to a hospital dreamscape, to a town full of people wearing masks, this anthology will take you on journeys you never could have expected. Come with us and discover the 48 surreal, strange, shocking, and beautiful stories in Apex Magazine 2021. Table of Contents “Root Rot” — Fargo Tbakhi “Your Own Undoing” — P H Lee “Love, That Hungry Thing” — Cassandra Khaw “Mr. Death” — Alix E. Harrow “The Niddah” — Elana Gomel “All I Want for Christmas” — Charles Payseur “Gray Skies, Red Wings, Blue Lips, Black Hearts” — Merc Fenn Wolfmoor “Barefoot and Midnight” — Sheree Renée Thomas “The Amazing Exploding Women of the Early Twentieth Century” — A.C. Wise “Black Box of the Terraworms” — Barton Aikman “If Those Ragged Feet Won’t Run” — Annie Neugebauer “A Love That Burns Hot Enough to Last: Deleted Scenes From a Documentary” — Sam J. Miller “The Life and Death of Mia Fremont: An Interview with a Killer” — A.K. Hudson “This Is the Moment, Or One of Them” — Mari Ness “Throw Rug” — Aurelius Raines II “Mishpokhe and Ash” — Sydney Rossman-Reich “All This Darkness” — Jennifer R. Donohue “DEMON FIGHTER SUCKS” — Katherine Crighton “Eilam Is Forever” — Beth Dawkins “Without Wishes to Bind You” — E. Catherine Tobler “How to be Good” — R. Gatwood “Osu” — Kingsley Okpii “Survival, After” — Nicole J. LeBoeuf “What Sisters Take” — Kelly Sandoval “Cottonmouth” — Joelle Wellington “Next to Cleanliness” — Rose Keating “Discontinuity” — Jared Millet “Candyland” — Maggie Slater “Gift for the Cutter Man” — D. Thomas Minton “Wake Up, I Miss You” — Rachel Swirsky “Security Breach at Sugar Pine Suites” — Pamela Rentz “Happy Trails” — Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr. “Marked by Bears” — Jessie Loyer “Spirits of the Broken Lands” — Kevin Wabaunsee “When Evening Arrives” — Tiffany Morris “An Incident at Hellpoint Prime” — Norris Black “To Seek Himself Again” — Marie Croke “This Shattered Vessel, Which Holds Only Grief” — Izzy Wasserstein “In Haskins” — Carson Winter “Whose Mortal Taste” — Erin K. Wagner “Hank in the South Dakota Sun” — Stephanie Kraner “I Call Upon the Night as Witness” — Zahra Mukhi “Soil of Our Home, Storm of Our Lives” — Renan Bernardo “Robin’s Last Song” — Nina Munteanu “Godmother” — Cheryl S. Ntumy “The synchronism of touch” — Gabriela Damián Miravete “Dreamports” — Tlotlo Tsamaase “Samsāra in a Teacup” — Lavanya Lakshminarayan

Resistance. Revolution. Standing up and demanding to have your space, your say, your right to be. From small acts of defiance to protests that shut down cities, Do Not Go Quietly is an anthology of science fiction and fantasy short stories about those who resist. Within this anthology, we will chronicle the fight for what is just and right, and what that means: from leading revolutions to the simple act of saying “No.” Resistance can be a small act of everyday defiance. And other times, resistance means massive movements that topple governments and become iconic historical moments. Either way, there is power in these acts, and the contributors in Do Not Go Quietly will harness that power to shake our readers to the core. We are subordinates to a power base that is actively working to solidify its grip on the world. Now is time to stand up and raise your voice and tell the world that enough is enough! TABLE OF CONTENTS: John Hornor Jacobs - "Glossolalia" A. Merc Rustad - "The Judith Plague" Maurice Broaddus/Nayad Monroe - "What the Mountain Wants" Karin Lowachee - "Sympathizer" Brooke Bolander - "Kindle" Cassandra Khaw - "What We Have Chosen to Love" Fran Wilde - "The Society for the Reclamation of Words and Meaning" Rich Larson - "Scurry" Sarah Pinsker - "Everything Is Closed Today" Sheree Renée Thomas - "Thirteen Year Long Song" Dee Warrick - "Nobody Lives in the Swamp" Russell Nichols - "Rage Against the Vending Machine" Meg Elison - "Hey Alexa" Marie Vibbert - "South of the Waffle House" Veronica Brush - "Face" Jo Miles - "Choose Your Truth" Rachael K. Jones - "Oil Under Her Tongue" Eugenia Triantafyllou - "April Teeth" E. Catherine Tobler - "Kill the Darlings (Silicone Sister Remix)" Shanna Germain - "Salted Bone and Silent Sea" Cover art by Marcela Bolívar. Includes 4 interior original black & white illustrations by the cover artist.

An Anthology of Victory in Defiance

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 127 contains the following short stories, essays, reviews, and interviews. EDITORIAL Musings from Maryland: Editorial by Lesley Conner ORIGINAL FICTION To Seek Himself Again by Marie Croke This Shattered Vessel, Which Holds Only Grief by Izzy Wasserstein In Haskins by Carson Winter Whose Mortal Taste by Erin K. Wagner Hank in the South Dakota Sun by Stephanie Kraner I Call Upon the Night as Witness by Zahra Mukhi CLASSIC FICTION Dogwood Stories by Nicole Givens Kurtz Thresher of Men by Michael Boatman NONFICTION Accost Me, SFF, and Waste My Time by Carlos Hernandez The of Death of Captain Kirk: Why the Illusory Singularity of the White Hero Must Die by Gerald L. Coleman REVIEWS Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review by A.C. Wise How to Get to Apocalypse and Other Disasters (Erica L. Satifka) The Necessity of Stars (E. Catherine Tobler) Whitesands (Johann Thorsson) The Martial Art of Writing and Other Essays (Alan Baxter) INTERVIEWS An Interview with Author Marie Croke by Andrea Johnson An Interview with Author Erin K. Wagner by Andrea Johnson An Interview with Artist Magdalena Pagowska by Russ Dickerson

Apex Magazine Issue 127

This anthology collects some of the best original short fiction published in Apex Magazine over the past six years. The stories include our numerous award-nominated works, our readers' Story of the Year selections, and personal favorites chosen by Apex Magazine editor-in-chief Jason Sizemore and managing editor Lesley Conner. TABLE OF CONTENTS Jackalope Wives by Ursula Vernon Going Endo by Rich Larson Candy Girl by Chikodili Emelumadu If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love by Rachel Swirsky Advertising at the End of the World Keffy R.M. Kehrli The Performance Artist by Lettie Prell A Matter of Shapespace by Brian Trent Falling Leaves by Liz Argall Blood from Stone by Alethea Kontis Sexagesimal by Katharine E.K. Duckett Keep Talking by Marie Vibbert Remembery Day by Sarah Pinsker Blood on Beacon Hill by Russell Nichols The Green Book by Amal El-Mohtar L’esprit de L’escalier by Peter M. Ball Still Life (A Sexagesimal Fairy Tale) by Ian Tregillis Build a Dolly by Ken Liu Multo by Samuel Marzioli Armless Maidens of the American West by Genevieve Valentine Pocosin by Ursula Vernon She Gave Her Heart, He Took Her Marrow by Sam Fleming Also includes a foreword by Jason Sizemore and afterword by Lesley Conner.

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Brian Keene

Alix Harrow

Walker McKnight

P. Clark

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. 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 Escrow Punch - Lesley Conner COLUMNS Between the Lines with Laura Zats and Erik Hane Page Advice with Mallory O'Meara and Brea Grant

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