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Apex Magazine Issue 122

By Jason Sizemore & Sheree Renée Thomas &
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Publisher Description

Strange. Beautiful. Shocking. Surreal.

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.

EDITORIAL
Editorial by Jason Sizemore

ORIGINAL FICTION
Barefoot and Midnight by Sheree Renée Thomas
The Amazing Exploding Women of the Early Twentieth Century by A.C. Wise
Black Box of the Terraworms by Barton Aikman
If Those Ragged Feet Won't Run by Annie Neugebauer
A Love That Burns Hot Enough to Last: Deleted Scenes from a Documentary by Sam J. Miller
Las Girlfriends Guide to Subversive Eating by Sabrina Vourvoulias

REPRINTED FICTION
She Searches for God in the Storm Within by Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali
The Eight-Thousanders by Jason Sanford

INTERVIEWS
Interview with Author Sabrina Vourvoulias by Andrea Johnson
Interview with Author Annie Neugebauer by Andrea Johnson
Interview with Cover Artist Thomas Tan by Russell Dickerson

NONFICTION
Jimi Hendrix Sang It by ZZ Claybourne
Telling Stories of Ghosts by Wendy N. Wagner
Words for Thought: Short Fiction Reviews by A.C. Wise

3 Reviews

4.5
“‘Strange. Beautiful. Shocking. Surreal.’ ‘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.’ APEX EMAGAZINE ISSUE 122 – Highly Recommend! Original Fiction: ‘Barefoot and Midnight’ – by Sheree Renée Thomas ‘The faith she once had was replaced with an unholy rage, an anger so hot, it incinerated all forgiveness. She willed her body to move. But the scent of roses, overpowering in the night, strengthened her resolve, holding her there.’ ‘The Amazing Exploding Women of the Early Twentieth Century’ — by A.C. Wise ‘“Think of Georges Méliès,” the old woman says. “Moon men appearing in puffs of smoke. Only these were like fairy tales, the old kind meant to assure the world that women were empty-headed, foolish, and vain. I’ll give Don Leaming this, he thought up dozens of clever ways to make us die.”’ ‘Black Box of the Terraworms’ —by Barton Aikman ‘“We begin to make the planet a place that one day can be called yours. We do this for you because this is what you created us to do. This is our purpose. But we don’t call you gods. You are not gods. That is the first thing you coded us to know, which was wise. If you were gods, we would want to eat you too.”’ ‘If Those Ragged Feet Won’t Run’ —by Annie Neugebauer ‘The night comes. It can’t yet be seen, felt, tasted, or smelled, but you can hear it. You can hear all things fall quiet as the dusk draws near. It is a fearful silence, waiting.’ ‘Las Girlfriends Guide to Subversive Eating’ —by Sabrina Vourvoulias ‘Philadelphia is a food city.’ ‘If you don’t believe us, believe Travel + Leisure, which last year wrote that our city has a "vibrant culinary landscape" and named us "one of the most exciting food destinations in the nation."’ ‘A second site lauded our cheesesteaks, meatballs in red gravy, and innovative vegan eateries. Yet another reminded us that top restaurateurs like Marc Vetri, Stephen Starr, Michael Solomonov and José Garcés have all left their imprint on how, and what, we eat in the city.’ ‘FWIW, all of that is true.’ ‘But we know how you are.’ ‘You want to know the hidden.’ ‘You want to know the real.’ ‘A Love That Burns Hot Enough to Last: Deleted Scenes from a Documentary’ — by Sam J. Miller ‘Listening to her on the radio, watching clips, you feel it, a little, you know this is something special, something (supernatural) different, and if you really listen hard and let your guard down maybe it will start to stir up something you can’t explain—give you something you didn’t have before—a faint smell in the air, a memory that’s not yours, a shadow shaped like her in your dreams that night.’ Classic Fiction: ‘She Searches for God in the Storm Within’ — by Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali ‘For a time I left my grandmother’s home far below, as well as the indecision and uncertainty. I left behind the jittering bone-deep ache of the coming storm. Then I became the storm. I shed the tempting brown flesh in favor of that which cannot be possessed and obscured.’ ‘One cannot rope a cloud and keep it for their own. Can they?’ ‘The Eight-Thousanders’ –by Jason Sanford ‘[I]t wasn’t good enough to want to climb. You had to have the means to climb. And that’s what working for Ronnie gave me. Not that I hated Ronnie. Working for him was like aiming for Everest—it didn’t matter what we created, only that we reached the top.’ Also, In This Issue – Interviews with Authors: Sabrina Vourvoulias Annie Neugebauer Interview with Cover Artist: Thomas Tan Nonfiction: Jimi Hendrix Sang It’ – by ZZ Claybourne ‘Telling Stories of Ghosts’ – by Wendy N. Wagner ‘Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review’ – by A.C. Wise Thank you, Editor Jason Sizemore, for providing me with an Emagazine of Apex Publications Issue 122 at the request of an honest review.”

Khaalidah Miuhammad-Ali

ZZ Claybourne

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