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Episode #6: What You've Been Missing

June 6, 2020
Estimated reading time 1 min

By Maria Dahvana Headley | Narrated by Lynne M. Thomas

"What You've Been Missing"—Published in Apex Magazine issue 55 December 2013.

Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/what-youve-been-missing/

Maria Dahvana Headley is the author of the dark fantasy/alt-history novel Queen of Kings, and the internationally bestselling memoir The Year of Yes. Her Nebula-nominated short fiction has recently appeared in Lightspeed, Subterranean, Nightmare, The Journal Of Unlikely Entomology, Glitter & Mayhem, Jurassic London's The Lowest Heaven and The Book of the Dead, and anthologized in the 2013 editions of Rich Horton’s The Year’s Best Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Paula Guran’s The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror. With Neil Gaiman, she is the New York Times-Bestselling co-editor of the young-adult monster anthology Unnatural Creatures, benefitting 826DC. Upcoming are a young adult skyship novel from HarperCollins, and a new novella (co-written with Kat Howard) from Subterranean. She lives in Brooklyn in an apartment full of celestial charts from the 1700's, two gilded hippocamps, and possibly, depending on recent purchases, a crocodile.

This Apex Magazine Podcast was performed by Editor-in-Chief Lynne M. Thomas and produced by Erika Ensign. Music used with kind permission of Oh, Alchemy!

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About the author

Maria Dahvana Headley

Maria Dahvana Headley is the author of the dark fantasy/alt–history novel Queen of Kings and the internationally bestselling memoir The Year of Yes. Her Nebula–nominated short fiction has recently appeared in Lightspeed, Subterranean, Nightmare, The Journal Of Unlikely Entomology, Glitter & Mayhem, Jurassic London’s The Lowest Heaven and The Book of the Dead. With Neil Gaiman, she is the New York Times–Bestselling co–editor of the young–adult monster anthology Unnatural Creatures, benefitting 826DC. She lives in Brooklyn in an apartment full of celestial charts from the 1700’s, two gilded hippocamps, and possibly, depending on recent purchases, a crocodile.