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ByLesley Conner

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Musings from Maryland

Welcome to Apex Magazine issue 136! While issue 135 delved into stories outside of the here and now with delightful dark fairy and folk tales, this issue focuses on the horrors brought about by modern technology and situations. I love a story that takes something we all use in our day-to-day lives and twists it so it becomes something threatening.

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Issue 136

Issue 136 with Original Fiction by Coda Audeguy-Pegon, Beth Dawkins, Lavie Tidhar, Claire Humphrey, Sara Tantlinger, and S.L. Harris. Flash Fiction by Taryn Frazier and Rich Larson. Classic Fiction by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki and Joy Baglio. Essays by Paul Weimer and Emmy Jackson.

ByLP Kindred

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Your Rover is Here

My heart pumps Four-Hour Surge through hellfire veins to combat the car’s lulling vibrations. My fists grip the steering wheel. Instead of squeezing, I push. Not with muscles, but with presence.

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Apex in March 2023

2023 is well underway now. We're busy behind the scenes prepping for Issue 136, our special Asian and Pacific Islanders Issue (Issue 137), the upcoming release of Tobias Buckell's Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance and Other Stories, and managing our ongoing Kickstarter for Robotic Ambitions! We hope you are thriving and finding this year a restorative and exciting time. We've got a lot going on this month!

ByBradley Powers

Interview with Artist Asya Yordanova

Asya is a self-taught Bulgarian illustrator specializing in dark fantasy and horror imagery.

ByJordan Kurella

The Wreck of the Medusa

She surfaced again last night, the creature, to say more riddles. There is no malice in the way she speaks, as if she either cannot feel it, or is capable only of malice within the grip of her tendrils, or between her rows of teeth. Malice for her is an action: intended for those who intend it toward her.

ByMarissa van Uden

Interview with Author Akis Linardos

And yet sometimes, when you listen to the song of the faeries beyond the hedge line and ask just the right questions, the way out becomes possible.

ByAkis Linardos

Daughter, Mother, Charcoal

It comes with age, she said. Your skin grows tough and strong, until it doesn’t feel the pain. I believed her, then.

ByMonica Valentinelli

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What Underlies Our Conversations About Witches

First, he’d blithely explain how my great-grandfather saved the family’s cows from that blasphemous witch by lifting her up against the wall and choking her until she relented.