Apex Magazine Issue 104

Apex Magazine is a science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction.

Double issue special!

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

FICTION
Asylum of Cuckoos — Lila Bowen
To Blight a Fig Tree Before It Bears Fruit — Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley
A Night Out at a Nice Place — Nick Mamatas
The Heaven-Moving Way — Chi Hui
Symphony to a city under the stars — Armando Saldaña
The Ghost Stories We Tell Around Photon Fires — Cassandra Khaw
The Best Friend We Never Had — Nisi Shawl
Origin Story — T. Kingfisher

NONFICTION
Interview with Lila Bowen (Delilah S. Dawson) — Andrea Johnson
Interview with Cover Artist Daniele Serra — Russel Dickerson
Orrin Evans: The Pioneer of Black Comic Book Publishing — Shawn Pryor
Fear of Failure 2.0 — Damien Angelica Walters

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

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