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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 141 contains the following short stories, essays, reviews, and interviews.

EDITORIAL Musings from Maryland by Lesley Conner

ORIGINAL SHORT FICTION Hole World by J.S. Breukelaar Nightglow Pizza by A.M. Lomuscio Homewrecker by E. Catherine Tobler All the Good You Did Not Do by Jolie Toomajan Papas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Slug Monsters by Erica Satifka Twenty Pieces of Documentation Presented to the Emergency Committee on the Study and Understanding of the M3D1154 Contagion by Damien Angelica Walters

FLASH FICTION Wet, Dry, Bitter by Leah Ning Woman Embracing Woman, on Loan From Private Collection by Liv Strom

CLASSIC FICTION Bettina by R.J. Joseph Birds by Zin E. Rocklyn

NONFICTION Dog is in the Details by Sarah Pinsker Between the Dreaming and the Dead by Leanna Renee Hieber Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review by AC Wise

INTERVIEWS Interview with Author J.S. Breukelaar by Marissa van Uden Interview with Author Jolie Toomajan by Marissa van Uden Interview with Cover Artist Peter Mohrbacher by Bradley Powers