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Vol. 154 · Quarterly · Edited by Lesley Conner

Strange.
Shocking.
Surreal. Beautiful.

A digital journal of fantastical fiction — stories filled with marrow and passion, twisted and strange, where secret places are put on display.

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The cover of Apex Magazine Issue 154 features a digital painting of a woman with a golden halo, encircled by black birds in flight. The text highlights contributing authors and magazine information, with original fiction, flash fiction, and essays included.

Cover art by Jeleynai

Format 01

The Quarterly eBook

Four times a year, the complete issue lands as a single volume — every story, interview, and essay. Yours to keep, read offline, in any reader.

Format 02

The Online Drip

Between quarterly releases the issue is poured out online, one piece at a time — a new story each week, free to read as it arrives.

Table of Contents
Author
Form
01
The Once-girl Made of Mycellium
Shingai Njeri Kagunda
Short Fiction
02
Reality, Exhaustion, and AI
Lesley Conner
Nonfiction
03
It Starts With Teeth
Stefan Alcalá Slater
Short Fiction
04
We Were Once Twelve
S.C. Pires
Short Fiction
05
Interview with Author Alia Ai-Ming Shahzad
Marissa van Uden
Interviews
06
Parts and Halves
Alia Ai-Ming Shahzad
Short Fiction
07
In the Blue Hour
RJ Aurand
Short Fiction
08
Learning From the Nerds: Game Writing Techniques That Apply To Fiction
Richard Dansky
Nonfiction
09
Dispatch From My Ex-Girlfriend's Lower Intestine
A.M. Maris
Short Fiction
10
Boys of the Fellwood
David R. Hoffman
Short Fiction
11
Words for Thought
A.C. Wise
nonfiction
12
When I Heard Calypso
Rob Cameron
Short Fiction
13
Interview with Author Anj Baker
Marissa van Uden
Interviews
14
Interview with Artist Jeleynai
Bradley Powers
Interviews
15
Cervidae, New and Sharp
Anj Baker
Short Fiction
16
Musings from Maryland
Lesley Conner
editorial

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