Jason Sizemore

Apex Magazine Issue 99

Apex Magazine Issue 105, February 2018

Lesley Conner

Marcela Bolívar

An Anthology of Defiance in Victory

Do Not Go Quietly

Apex Magazine #135

Apex Magazine #136

Strange. Surreal. Shocking. Beautiful. 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 138 contains the following short stories, essays, reviews, and interviews. EDITORIAL Editorial by Lesley Conner ORIGINAL SHORT FICTION The Relationship of Ink to Blood by Alex Langer Ncheta by Chisom Umeh Thank Mother for Your Life by Mary G. Thompson Chupa Sangre by Tre Harris Salas A World Unto Myself by P.A. Cornell Lady Koi-Koi: A Book Report by Suyi Davies Okungbowa FLASH FICTION Measure Twice, Cut Once by K.R. March Smoke Fire Wind Sea by Valerie Kemp CLASSIC FICTION A Mastery of German by Marian Denise Moore An Inventory of the Property of the Escaped Suspect, Confiscated at the Time of Her Arrest Following the Incident on Ash Street, with Annotations by Acting Sheriff Helena Fairwind by Tim Pratt NONFICTION Words Wielded by Women by Carina Bissett INTERVIEWS Interview with Author Alex Langer by Marissa van Uden Interview with Author Tre Harris Salas by Marissa van Uden Interview with Artist Robson Michel by Bradley Powers

Apex Magazine Issue 138

Apex Magazine, Issue 139, July/August 2023

The Compilation Anthology

Apex Magazine 2021

Mountain Dead takes a look at the dark side of Appalachia, where the Undead walk, driven by old magic and worse, their hunger for us.Almost Heaven... or is it?The mountain's enduring beauty holds something dark. Something dreadful. Something hungry for our flesh, our brains. Something dead yet not quite dead, driven by magic as old as the coal seams and the hills.

Mountain Dead

The Zombie Feed, Vol. 1

Jonathan Maberry

Kevin J. Anderson

Tim Lebbon

Tom Piccirilli

Seanan McGuire

Paul Tremblay

Tim Waggoner

Lucien Soulban

Lucy A. Snyder

Nisi Shawl

Michael West

Damien Angelica Walters

Nick Mamatas

Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Brandon Massey

Anton Strout

Gary Kloster

Douglas F. Warrick

Gerard Brennan

A.C. Wise

Daniel Robichaud

Laurie Tom

From the editors of Dark Faith, Maurice Broaddus and Jerry Gordon, comes a collection of supernatural crime noir. You think you're safe. What a joke. You don't think about the places you pass every day. The side streets. The alleys. The underbridges. All you'd have to do is take a step to the side. Then you'd know. The streets are filled with shadows.

Streets of Shadows

Our largest book to date! With stories by Alix E. Harrow, Sam J. Miller, Sheree Renée Thomas, Cassandra Khaw, and many more, Apex Magazine 2021 is a collection of darkly beautiful tales appearing originally in Apex Magazine January-December 2021. From a spaceship in the far-flung reaches of space to a cozy living room where a detective interviews a killer, this anthology explores the good and the ugly. It dissects what makes us human versus what makes us monsters. Within these pages, you will meet a golem that doesn’t know how to save its family, a group of robots debating whether they are alive, and a woman striving for that social media-perfect life. From parasitic twins to a hospital dreamscape, to a town full of people wearing masks, this anthology will take you on journeys you never could have expected. Come with us and discover the 48 surreal, strange, shocking, and beautiful stories in Apex Magazine 2021. Table of Contents “Root Rot” — Fargo Tbakhi “Your Own Undoing” — P H Lee “Love, That Hungry Thing” — Cassandra Khaw “Mr. Death” — Alix E. Harrow “The Niddah” — Elana Gomel “All I Want for Christmas” — Charles Payseur “Gray Skies, Red Wings, Blue Lips, Black Hearts” — Merc Fenn Wolfmoor “Barefoot and Midnight” — Sheree Renée Thomas “The Amazing Exploding Women of the Early Twentieth Century” — A.C. Wise “Black Box of the Terraworms” — Barton Aikman “If Those Ragged Feet Won’t Run” — Annie Neugebauer “A Love That Burns Hot Enough to Last: Deleted Scenes From a Documentary” — Sam J. Miller “The Life and Death of Mia Fremont: An Interview with a Killer” — A.K. Hudson “This Is the Moment, Or One of Them” — Mari Ness “Throw Rug” — Aurelius Raines II “Mishpokhe and Ash” — Sydney Rossman-Reich “All This Darkness” — Jennifer R. Donohue “DEMON FIGHTER SUCKS” — Katherine Crighton “Eilam Is Forever” — Beth Dawkins “Without Wishes to Bind You” — E. Catherine Tobler “How to be Good” — R. Gatwood “Osu” — Kingsley Okpii “Survival, After” — Nicole J. LeBoeuf “What Sisters Take” — Kelly Sandoval “Cottonmouth” — Joelle Wellington “Next to Cleanliness” — Rose Keating “Discontinuity” — Jared Millet “Candyland” — Maggie Slater “Gift for the Cutter Man” — D. Thomas Minton “Wake Up, I Miss You” — Rachel Swirsky “Security Breach at Sugar Pine Suites” — Pamela Rentz “Happy Trails” — Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr. “Marked by Bears” — Jessie Loyer “Spirits of the Broken Lands” — Kevin Wabaunsee “When Evening Arrives” — Tiffany Morris “An Incident at Hellpoint Prime” — Norris Black “To Seek Himself Again” — Marie Croke “This Shattered Vessel, Which Holds Only Grief” — Izzy Wasserstein “In Haskins” — Carson Winter “Whose Mortal Taste” — Erin K. Wagner “Hank in the South Dakota Sun” — Stephanie Kraner “I Call Upon the Night as Witness” — Zahra Mukhi “Soil of Our Home, Storm of Our Lives” — Renan Bernardo “Robin’s Last Song” — Nina Munteanu “Godmother” — Cheryl S. Ntumy “The synchronism of touch” — Gabriela Damián Miravete “Dreamports” — Tlotlo Tsamaase “Samsāra in a Teacup” — Lavanya Lakshminarayan

Resistance. Revolution. Standing up and demanding to have your space, your say, your right to be. From small acts of defiance to protests that shut down cities, Do Not Go Quietly is an anthology of science fiction and fantasy short stories about those who resist. Within this anthology, we will chronicle the fight for what is just and right, and what that means: from leading revolutions to the simple act of saying “No.” Resistance can be a small act of everyday defiance. And other times, resistance means massive movements that topple governments and become iconic historical moments. Either way, there is power in these acts, and the contributors in Do Not Go Quietly will harness that power to shake our readers to the core. We are subordinates to a power base that is actively working to solidify its grip on the world. Now is time to stand up and raise your voice and tell the world that enough is enough! TABLE OF CONTENTS: John Hornor Jacobs - "Glossolalia" A. Merc Rustad - "The Judith Plague" Maurice Broaddus/Nayad Monroe - "What the Mountain Wants" Karin Lowachee - "Sympathizer" Brooke Bolander - "Kindle" Cassandra Khaw - "What We Have Chosen to Love" Fran Wilde - "The Society for the Reclamation of Words and Meaning" Rich Larson - "Scurry" Sarah Pinsker - "Everything Is Closed Today" Sheree Renée Thomas - "Thirteen Year Long Song" Dee Warrick - "Nobody Lives in the Swamp" Russell Nichols - "Rage Against the Vending Machine" Meg Elison - "Hey Alexa" Marie Vibbert - "South of the Waffle House" Veronica Brush - "Face" Jo Miles - "Choose Your Truth" Rachael K. Jones - "Oil Under Her Tongue" Eugenia Triantafyllou - "April Teeth" E. Catherine Tobler - "Kill the Darlings (Silicone Sister Remix)" Shanna Germain - "Salted Bone and Silent Sea" Cover art by Marcela Bolívar. Includes 4 interior original black & white illustrations by the cover artist.

An Anthology of Victory in Defiance

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. We publish every other month. Issue 127 contains the following short stories, essays, reviews, and interviews. EDITORIAL Musings from Maryland: Editorial by Lesley Conner ORIGINAL FICTION To Seek Himself Again by Marie Croke This Shattered Vessel, Which Holds Only Grief by Izzy Wasserstein In Haskins by Carson Winter Whose Mortal Taste by Erin K. Wagner Hank in the South Dakota Sun by Stephanie Kraner I Call Upon the Night as Witness by Zahra Mukhi CLASSIC FICTION Dogwood Stories by Nicole Givens Kurtz Thresher of Men by Michael Boatman NONFICTION Accost Me, SFF, and Waste My Time by Carlos Hernandez The of Death of Captain Kirk: Why the Illusory Singularity of the White Hero Must Die by Gerald L. Coleman REVIEWS Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review by A.C. Wise How to Get to Apocalypse and Other Disasters (Erica L. Satifka) The Necessity of Stars (E. Catherine Tobler) Whitesands (Johann Thorsson) The Martial Art of Writing and Other Essays (Alan Baxter) INTERVIEWS An Interview with Author Marie Croke by Andrea Johnson An Interview with Author Erin K. Wagner by Andrea Johnson An Interview with Artist Magdalena Pagowska by Russ Dickerson

Apex Magazine Issue 127

What does it take to become a Hugo and Stoker Award-nominated editor and publisher? Follow Jason Sizemore’s unconventional professional path as it winds through a tiny, overheated Baptist church deep within the coal fields of Appalachia, Kentucky, past a busted printer and a self-serving boss that triggered an early mid-life crisis and the epiphany that he should open a magazine spreading the gospel of science fiction to the masses, all the way to WorldCon 2012 and his first Hugo Awards ceremony. In this collection of semi-true and sometimes humorous essays, Jason exposes the parties, people, and triumphs that shaped him into the Apex Overlord. He also lays bare the hardships and failures that have threatened to take it all away. Meet Thong Girl, heed the warning about the ham, receive rest stop bathroom wisdom, and visit an emergency room straight out of a horror movie in this extraordinary account of life as a publisher and editor. With rebuttal essays from Maurice Broaddus, Monica Valentinelli, Lesley Conner, and more, For Exposure tells Jason’s story with insight from key players along his road to success. It is a comprehensive and frank look at what Apex and the genre publishing business is about. Take a shot with the publisher, dance the night away, and become a legend. And do it all For Exposure.

For Exposure: The Life and Times of a Small Press Publisher

Zombie Type: All types represented. Hungry, undead, and pissed off! Synopsis: Former Stoker Award-nominated editor Jason Sizemore compiles seventeen tasty, brainy morsels of zombie short fiction in The Zombie Feed: Volume 1. Zombie fiction from many sub-genres are represented here: zombie apocalypse, zombie survival, zombies in human society, zombie hunters, and more. And the one thread interlocking these disparate groups-ZOMBIE MAYHEM! This action packed anthology takes a syringe full of contaminated adrenaline-laced undead and slams 1000 CCs directly into your chest cavity. Fast paced, yet thoughtful, The Zombie Feed: Volume I will sate your appetite... at least temporarily. Table of Contents Cold Comfort by Nathaniel Tapley This Final December Day by Lee Thompson What's Next? by Elaine Blose Rabid Raccoons by Kristin Dearborn The Twenty-Three Second Anomaly by Ray Wallace Not Dead by BJ Burrow Tomorrow's Precious Lambs by Monica Valentinelli The Fare by Lucien Soulban A Shepherd of the Valley by Maggie Slater Broken Bough by Daniel I. Russell The Last Generation by Joe Nazare Goddamn Electric by K. Allen Wood Hipsters in Love by Danger Slater The Sickness unto Death by Brandon Alspaugh Lifeboat by Simon McCaffrey Zombies on the Moon by Andrew Clark Porter Bitten by Eugene Johnson

The Zombie Feed

This anthology collects some of the best original short fiction published in Apex Magazine over the past six years. The stories include our numerous award-nominated works, our readers' Story of the Year selections, and personal favorites chosen by Apex Magazine editor-in-chief Jason Sizemore and managing editor Lesley Conner. TABLE OF CONTENTS Jackalope Wives by Ursula Vernon Going Endo by Rich Larson Candy Girl by Chikodili Emelumadu If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love by Rachel Swirsky Advertising at the End of the World Keffy R.M. Kehrli The Performance Artist by Lettie Prell A Matter of Shapespace by Brian Trent Falling Leaves by Liz Argall Blood from Stone by Alethea Kontis Sexagesimal by Katharine E.K. Duckett Keep Talking by Marie Vibbert Remembery Day by Sarah Pinsker Blood on Beacon Hill by Russell Nichols The Green Book by Amal El-Mohtar L’esprit de L’escalier by Peter M. Ball Still Life (A Sexagesimal Fairy Tale) by Ian Tregillis Build a Dolly by Ken Liu Multo by Samuel Marzioli Armless Maidens of the American West by Genevieve Valentine Pocosin by Ursula Vernon She Gave Her Heart, He Took Her Marrow by Sam Fleming Also includes a foreword by Jason Sizemore and afterword by Lesley Conner.

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