Apex Magazine

Apex Magazine is a monthly science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction from many of the top pros of the field. New issues are released on the first Tuesday of every month.

EDITORIAL
Words from the Editor-in-Chief-Jason Sizemore

FICTION
Asylum of Cuckoos - Lila Bowen
To Blight a Fig Tree Before It Bears Fruit - Benjamin Naka-Hasebe Kingsley
A Night Out at a Nice Place - Nick Mamatas
The Heaven-Moving Way — Chi Hui (translated by Andy Dudak)
Symphony to a City Under the Stars — Armando Saldana
The Ghost Stories We Tell Around Photon Fires — Cassandra Khaw
The Best Friend We Never Had — Nisi Shawl

POETRY
Treebound — Mary Soon Lee
Monster: Puppeteer — Mary Soon Lee
the saddest of angels — Jeremy Paden

NONFICTION
Interview with Lila Bowen - Andrea Johnson
Interview with Cover Artist Daniele Serra - Russell Dickerson
Orrin Evans: The Pioneer of Black Comic Book Publishing — Shawn Pryor
Fear of Failure 2.0 — Damien Angelica Walters

COLUMNS
Between the Lines with Laura Zats and Erik Hane
Page Advice with Mallory O'Meara and Brea Grant