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Blood on Vellum: Notes from the Editor-in-Chief
Welcome to issue 48 of Apex Magazine. Emily Jiang’s “The Binding of Ming–tian” sketches the tension of between art and family expectations. E. Lily Yu’s “Ilse, Who Saw Clearly” takes us on a journey of perception, love, and struggle. Shira Lipkin’s epic poem “The Busker, Broke and Busted,” is, in her words, a “Gilbert–and–Sullivanesque patter song for an obsolete robot.” Our classic revisited this month is a post–nuclear apocalyptic tale from Joe R. Lansdale, “Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man’s Back,” originally published in Nukes (Maclay & Associates, 1986). We also have a bonus story about memory and loss by Douglas F....
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Welcome to issue 47 of Apex Magazine. We have some marvelous works for you this month. Sofia Samatar’s “Dawn and the Maiden” entwines love, loss, and belief. Ken Liu’s “Build-A-Dolly” explores the moment when we stop taking care of our playthings. Michael Griffin’s “The Lure of Devouring Light” shows us the sinister side of powerful music. Finally, the inimitable Sonya Taafe also shares a gorgeous mythological poem, “The Moon to Sappho,” with us. Our classic revisited this month comes from Daniel Abraham, originally writing as MLH Hanover. It’s a dark tale of homeownership called “Hurt Me.” In nonfiction, Maggie Slater interviews Daniel about...
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Welcome to issue 46 of Apex Magazine! We have some stellar fiction for you this month. This issue features “Death Comes Sideways to the Mall,” a piece by Will Alexander about a really bad shopping day. Liz Argall’s “Mermaid’s Hook” is a tale of longing at the seaside. Rachel Swirsky’s “If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love” takes confessional storytelling Paleolithic. Our reprint this month comes from Tim Pratt’s collection Antiquities and Tangibles. “The Fairy Library” is a tale of what is either the worst or best library job ever, depending upon your perspective and employment prospects. In nonfiction, Maggie Slater interviewed Tim about his story,...
Read MoreBlood on Vellum: Notes from the Editor-in-Chief
Welcome to issue 45 of Apex Magazine. This month, we draw our inspiration from well-known surreal tales of ghosts and folly, blood and love, showing our hopes and fears beyond the worlds we know so well. All the world’s a stage, and this month’s writers are providing their own scripts. Ophelia seeks the truth of work onstage, for Merrie Haskell’s robot tale of love. Kat Howard stakes the wherefores as, in loss, her Juliet finds a sage new way to be. Patricia Wrede shows a mother’s grief: her ghostly son in madness taken; she, bereft. The Scottish Play on worlds apart becomes more tragic in Kate Elliot’s tale retold. And Sarah Monette demonstrates that all we...
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Welcome to issue 44. We have some great works for your enjoyment this month! In our new fiction, Eugie Foster brings us “Trixie and the Pandas of Dread,” a darkly humorous take on gods among us. Lettie Prell’s contribution “The Performance Artist,” sketches the gruesome price of the artistic life for one artist. This month’s classic revisited is Tansy Rayner Roberts’s “The Patrician,” a tale of monster-hunting, family, and history, first published in Love and Romanpunk (Twelfth Planet Press 2011), and republished in The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy & Horror 2011. In nonfiction, Sarah Kuhn discusses the paucity of the “fake geek girl” debate,...
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