May 2, 2017

Hiraeth: Tragedy in Four Acts

“I fell,” said the cyborg, and for a moment his audience stood astounded, waiting for the larger speech, the longer explanation. None came. “I fell,” he said once, and spoke no further.
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Interview with Cover Artist Marcela Bolívar

Apex Magazine welcomes back cover artist Marcela Bolívar, whose beautiful art was last seen on our August 2016 issue. With a unique style and gorgeous techniques, Bolívar’s work enchants viewers with deeper questions about fantasy and darkness.
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The Three-tongued Mummy

In the flickering amber torchlight, the mummy’s skin was burnished sienna where Jackson peeled the rotting bandages off. When Jackson pressed fore and middle fingers to the slender collarbones, the skin crinkled like tissue beneath the warmth and weight of a living body. Color bloomed through the skin and Jackson watched as one might witness a comet streaking across an otherwise dark sky; the transformation in the body was sudden and startling.
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Why Write?

Your stories are yours to tell. It doesn’t matter if you’re not yet an accomplished writer. In the beginning it doesn’t even matter if you haven’t yet been able to complete anything. Nobody else can tell your stories. If you want them to be told, it’s up to you to find a way to do so, and to develop the best technique you can in order to tell them well.
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