Apex Magazine Issue 127

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