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ByMaggie Slater

Interview with Maureen McHugh

Maureen McHugh is a Hugo-winning short story author and award-winning novelist. She has published four novels, of which her novel China Mountain Zhang won the James Tiptree Jr. Award, and her short fiction has appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and numerous Year’s Best anthologies.

ByAlex Bledsoe

No Mortals Allowed

Someone clever once said, apropos of the Justice League, that the only thing sillier than an adult dressing up in colorful tights to fight crime, was a whole roomful of such folk. That’s a good analogy for films, TV shows and books that posit elaborate secret societies of vampires, werewolves and other supernatural creatures that operate just below the radar of human awareness.

ByLynne M. Thomas

Blood on Vellum: Notes from the Apex Editor-in-Chief

This issue will get under your skin. I didn’t set out to produce a themed issue, but with two stories featuring tattoos as a central motif, the urge to pair them together was overwhelming, and I succumbed.

ByLynne M. Thomas

Blood on Vellum: Notes from the Apex Editor

This issue will get under your skin. I didn’t set out to produce a theme issue, but with two stories featuring tattoos as a central motif, the urge to pair them together was overwhelming, and I succumbed. This month, David…

ByCat Rambo

So Glad We Had This Time Together

JB: I’m submitting my resignation, effective immediately. * I can hear the distant hum of the building’s heart, the slow steps of a janitor cleaning its chambers with wafts of pine and ammonia, strong and harsh. I’ll track him down and kill him when I finish.

BySarah Dalton

Sweetheart Showdown

The first skin graft wasn’t so bad. I came to under bright spotlights, watching Ma-lee’s tight face fade in and out of focus and catching vague blurs of pink lips. A morphine-induced merge of metal and skin nodding approvingly down at me in the hospital bed.

ByGregory Frost

The Prowl

Sure, I know what you want to hear about. You want to hear about the Civil War. I’ve already been interviewed, and that’s all anybody wants recollected. Yes, I know, I do look too young to have seen it.

ByJim C. Hines

Writing About Rape

So you’ve decided to add a rape scene to your story. After all, you’re writing a horror story, and what’s more horrific than rape?

ByMaggie Slater

Interview with Gregory Frost

Gregory Frost has been a finalist for nearly every major industry award, from the Hugo and Nebula to the Theodore Sturgeon and James Tiptree Jr. awards.