Apex Magazine Issue 141

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 141 contains the following short stories, essays, reviews, and interviews.

EDITORIAL

Musings from Maryland by Lesley Conner

ORIGINAL SHORT FICTION

Hole World by J.S. Breukelaar

Nightglow Pizza by A.M. Lomuscio

Homewrecker by E. Catherine Tobler

All the Good You Did Not Do by Jolie Toomajan

Papas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Slug Monsters by Erica Satifka

Twenty Pieces of Documentation Presented to the Emergency Committee on the Study and Understanding of the M3D1154 Contagion by Damien Angelica Walters

FLASH FICTION

Wet, Dry, Bitter by Leah Ning

Woman Embracing Woman, on Loan From Private Collection by Liv Strom

CLASSIC FICTION

Bettina by R.J. Joseph

Birds by Zin E. Rocklyn

NONFICTION

Dog is in the Details by Sarah Pinsker

Between the Dreaming and the Dead by Leanna Renee Hieber

Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review by AC Wise

INTERVIEWS

Interview with Author J.S. Breukelaar by Marissa van Uden

Interview with Author Jolie Toomajan by Marissa van Uden

Interview with Cover Artist Peter Mohrbacher by Bradley Powers