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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