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 Luminaria—John Hornor Jacobs Waste—Mary Elizabeth Burroughs Jesus Christ, Reanimator—Ken MacLeod NONFICTION Interview with Author John Hornor Jacobs—Andrea Johnson Books Worth Your Time—Apex Staff Interview with Cover Artist Caroline Jamhour—Russell Dickerson

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 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

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

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 On the Sunlit Side of Venus by Benjamin Parzybok The Day When the Last War is Over by Sergey Gerasimov The Skinless Man Counts to Five by Paul Jessup Nothing that Bleeds by Leah Ning Kings and Popes and Saints by Jon Hansen Ten Steps for Effective Mold Removal by Derrick Boden CLASSIC FICTION Brief Life Story of Lila by Danny Cherry, Jr. Something New for the Silent by Zig Zag Claybourne HOLIDAY HORRORS TOP 3 Stringy by Carlie St. George Triangle Eyes by Chris Clemens Feast or Famine Rulebook by Anna Madden NONFICTION Come On, Younglings, We’re Not Totally Screwed by Brandon Crilly Getting Unstuck by Martha Wells REVIEWS Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review by AC Wise INTERVIEWS Interview with Author Sergey Gerasimov by Marissa van Uden Interview with Author Derrick Boden by Marissa van Uden Interview with Artists Angelica Alzona, Alyssa Winans, and Pamela Zhang by Bradley Powers

Strange. Beautiful. Shocking. Surreal. International futurists edition! Guest-edited by Francesco Verso. 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 128 contains the following short stories, essays, reviews, and interviews. EDITORIAL From the Sense of Wonder to the Sense of Wander by Francesco Verso ORIGINAL FICTION Soil of Our Home, Storm of Our Lives by Renan Bernardo Robin's Last Song by Nina Munteanu Godmother by Cheryl S. Ntumy The synchronism of touch by Gabriela Damián Miravete Dreamports by Tlotlo Tsamaase Samsāra in a Teacup by Lavanya Lakshminarayan CLASSIC FICTION Aethra by Michalis Manolios Francine (draft for the September lecture) by Maria Antònia Martí Escayol NONFICTION Highlighting Trends in Indian SF in the Twenty-first Century by Tarun K. Saint REVIEWS Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review by A.C. Wise INTERVIEWS An Interview with Author Renan Bernardo by Marissa van Uden An Interview with Author Nina Munteanu by Rebecca E. Treasure An Interview with Artist Chiara Topo by Jason Sizemore

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 125 contains the following: EDITORIAL Editorial by Jason Sizemore Words from the Honorary Special Editor by Jeffery Reynolds ORIGINAL FICTION COTTONMOUTH by Joelle Wellington Next to Cleanliness by Rose Keating Discontinuity by Jared Millet Candyland by Maggie Slater Gift for the Cutter Man by D. Thomas Minton Wake Up, I Miss You by Rachel Swirsky CLASSIC FICTION Deep Night by Tenea D. Johnson The Ever-Dreaming Verdict of Plagues by Jason Sanford The Rat by Yohanca Delgado INTERVIEWS Interview with Author Joelle Wellington by Andrea Johnson Interview with Author Rose Keating by Andrea Johnson Interview with Cover Artist Marcela Bolívar by Russell Dickerson NONFICTION Alone? Or, How a Survivalist Reality TV Show Defangs Publishing's Narrow Definition of Agency by Maria Dong Flesh Eggs by Ken MacGregor REVIEWS Review of Grave Reservations by Cherie Priest Review of Malefactor by Robert Repino 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. We publish every other month. Issue 129 contains the following short stories, essays, reviews, and interviews. EDITORIAL Editorial by Jason Sizemore ORIGINAL FICTION It Happened in 'Loontown by Lavie Tidhar City Lights by Yilun Fan (translated by S. Qiouyi Lu) Sheri, At This Very Moment by Bianca Sayan What Una Loves by Rich Larson Lamia by Cristina Jurado (translated by Monica Louzon) The Cure for Loneliness by M. Shaw CLASSIC FICTION O2 Arena by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki That Rough-Hewn Sun by Benjanun Sriduangkaew NONFICTION Tie Me to the Mast (Metaphorically Speaking): Social Writing in the Age of the Pandemic by C.S.E. Cooney The Importance of Presenting Disabilities in Literature by Mercedes M. Yardley REVIEWS Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review by A.C. Wise Book Review: Black Chain by Dominic Martell (reviewed by Keturah Barchers) Book Review: Flowers for the Sea by Zin E. Rocklyn (reviewed by Tracy Robinson) INTERVIEWS Interview with Author M. Shaw by Marissa van Uden Interview with Author Bianca Sayan by Rebecca E. Treasure Interview with Cover Artist Luka Brico by Russell Dickerson