Ncheta does his best to help the man remember. He tries to connect the dots, pull strings of memories together, mend the broken web of long-held moments and cherished experiences.
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While this story isn’t set in Guatemala specifically—it’s a story about many, many regimes—it’s inextricable from that context. The crime of disappearing someone is really killing them twice, erasing both them and the possibility of memorializing them.
Read MoreInterview with Author Alex Langer
Snap Judgment #7 will be livestreamed on Friday, June 30 at 1pm ET (10 am PT, 12 pm CT, 6 pm UTC).
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We are pleased and honored to announce that both Apex Magazine and "A Monster in the Shape of a Boy" by Hannah Yang (published in issue 131) are finalists for the Locus Award!
Read MoreApex and “A Monster in the Shape of a Boy” Locus Award Finalists
Issue 138, with Original Fiction by Alex Langer, Chisom Umeh, Mary G. Thompson, Tre Harris Salas, P.A. Cornell, and Suyi Davies Okungbowa. Flash Fiction by K.R. March and Valerie Kemp. Classic Fiction by Marian Denise Moore and Tim Pratt. Essay by Carina Bissett.
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This issue marks the end of an insanely busy period in the Apex offices. Not that we ever truly have a slow period (that’s not how publishing works), but between having a new issue release in March, April, and May, and running the Robotic Ambitions Kickstarter, the past few months have been exceptionally hectic.
Read MoreMusings from Maryland
But the Commandant wanted it, and what he wanted, he got. The Clerk didn’t like the Commandant, but he understood what happened to people who didn’t follow orders.
Read MoreThe Relationship of Ink to Blood
Apex Events in May 2023
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Su Yin was hiding the first time the fish spoke to her. It was three o'clock on a Thursday and she was at Puan Lai's house for Maths Teras tuition.
Read MoreThe Fish Bowl