Apex Magazine Issue 148

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 148 contains the following short stories, essays, reviews, and interviews. EDITORIAL Musings from Maryland by Lesley Conner ORIGINAL SHORT FICTION One by One by Lindz McLeod Jackie and Xing Forever by Wil Magness A Ten Thousand Year Survey Into Seven Stomachs of an Ishta by Allison Thai I found an old god in the woods by Monte Lin FLASH FICTION Halfway Alive, Halfway Living by Colton Kekoa Neves Someone to Feed You by Abigail Kemske CLASSIC FICTION Rage Against the Venting Machine by Russell Nichols Notes From a Pyre by Amal Singh NONFICTION A Keening for Churile by Zin E. Rocklyn The City is Breathing: Solarpunk Noir. Please Don't Call it Cyberpunk by Rob Cameron Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review by AC Wise Book Review: Roanne Lau's The Serpent Called Mercy by Leah Ning Book Review: Sam Asher's Really Shockingly Bad Things and Other Stories by Leah Ning INTERVIEWS Interview with Author Lindz McLeod by Marissa van Uden Interview with Author Allison Thai by Marissa van Uden Interview with Cover Artist Vibhav Singh by Bradley Powers