Apex Magazine Issue 148

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 SHORT FICTION

One by One by Lindz McLeod

Jackie and Xīng 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