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APEX MAGAZINE is a digital dark science fiction and fantasy genre zine that features award-winning short fiction, essays, and interviews. Established in 2009, our fiction has won several Hugo and Nebula Awards.

We publish every other month.

Issue 139 contains the following short stories, essays, reviews, and interviews.

EDITORIAL Musings from Maryland by Lesley Conner

ORIGINAL SHORT FICTION The Monster Fucker Club by A.V. Greene Dolly Girl by Christopher Rowe Island Circus by Amal Singh But I Loved You by Sachiko Ragosta The Discarded Ones by Linda Niehoff The Magazine of Horror by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki

FLASH FICTION Gim of P by Benjamin DeHaan You and Me and The End by Mona West

CLASSIC FICTION A Young Zombie in Crisis by Walidah Imarisha You Without Me by Endria Isa Richardson

NONFICTION Outside of Language: Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal by Andrea Johnson Renfield: Blood is the Life (But Only if Necessary) by Rick Hipson

INTERVIEWS Interview with Author A.V. Greene by Marissa van Uden Interview with Author Sachiko Ragosta by Marissa van Uden Interview with Cover Artist Lauren Raye Snow by Bradley Powers