Issue 153

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.

EDITORIAL
"Musings from Maryland" by Lesley Conner

ORIGINAL FICTION
"The Bathhouse for Long Life" by Claire Jia-Wen
"Glass" by Beth Dawkins
"My Suicides" by Debbie Urbanski
"Seventeen Beats, the Chirping Stopped" by Christian Ramirez Ramos — 6/23

FLASH FICTION
"In Your Diminishing Tongue" by Indigo Rue
"The Vigil of the Tenth Air" by Surya Ramkumar — 6/30
"Of Brackens and Cowries" by Jana Bianchi — 7/7

ESSAYS
"Why it Matters When I Write About Space Janitors" by Marie Vibbert
"Weird Girl Fiction" by Ivy Grimes
"Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review" by A.C. Wise — 7/28

CLASSIC FICTION
"Ada the Last Daughter: On Blackhole Cosmology and Computation" by Chris Campbell
"Disobedience and Goats" by Somto Ihezue — 7/14

INTERVIEWS
Interview with Author Claire Jia-Wen by Marissa van Uden
Interview with Author Debbie Urbanski by Marissa van Uden
Interview with Artist Valentina Paz by Bradley Powers — 7/21

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