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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 135 contains the following short stories, essays, reviews, and interviews.

EDITORIAL

Musings from Maryland by Lesley Conner

ORIGINAL SHORT FICTION

The Big Glass Box and the Boys Inside by Isabel J. Kim

Carnival Ever After by Mari Ness

The Immortal Game by Lindz McLeod

River Bargain Baby by K.S. Walker

Daughter, Mother, Charcoal by Akis Linardos

The Wreck of the Medusa by Jordan Kurella

FLASH FICTION

Experimental Protocol for the Coronal Sectioning of a Human Soul by Sagan Yee

Walking the Deep Down by Michelle Denham

CLASSIC FICTION

Message in a Vessel by V.G.Harrison

Your Rover is Here by LP Kindred

NONFICTION

The Radical Nature of Slipstream Fiction by Eugen Bacon

What Underlies Our Conversations about Witches by Monica Valentinelli

Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review by AC Wise

INTERVIEWS

Interview with Author Isabel J. Kim by Marissa van Uden

Interview with Author Akis Linardos by Marissa van Uden

Interview with Cover Artist Asya Yordanova by Bradley Powers