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ByLesley Conner

Apex Magazine Artist of the Year 2015

We’d only planned for our poll for the Apex Magazine Artist of the Year 2015 to be open for a week, but snow, and life, and time got away from us, leaving the polls open longer than that. Which is…

ByDaniel Rosen

Anabaptist

Men wear hats outside. Black for the winter, brown for the summer. Hat brims are three inches wide. Once a man marries, he grows a beard but shaves his upper lip. Unmarried boys must be clean-shaven. When a man’s wife dies, he will not remarry, no matter how lonely. This is God’s Will.

ByAndrea Johnson

Interview with Author Benjanun Sriduangkaew

Interview with this month's featured author.

ByBenjanun Sriduangkaew

The Beast at the End of Time

As the world marches toward the guillotine of its finale, the sleeping beast shakes loose the slats of its painted unthought and licks the tang of dénouement from its fangs. It stirs upright on trembling ligaments, clad in starvation and rust.

ByJason Sizemore

Words from the Editor-in-Chief

Welcome to issue 81!

ByDave Creek

Kutraya’s Skies

Shadoua arrived early at his home, just after midnight in the full planetless darkness Kutraya’s farside enjoyed, a darkness he was all too aware of on this night.

ByDamien Angelica Walters

Paper Tigers (Excerpt)

The soles of Alison’s shoes marked each limping step away from her front door. She tugged the scarf on her head, pulling the fabric down to cover most of her forehead, and shoved her gloved hands deep in the pockets of her jacket. A woman’s voice, high-pitched and nasal, broke the 3 a.m. stillness.

ByAndrea Johnson

Interview with Ursula Vernon

An interview with our featured author.

ByUrsula Vernon

Razorback

There was a witch who lived up in the mountains, and I never heard but that she was a good one.