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Apex Magazine Issue 142

Apex Magazine Issue 142

Lesley Conner — 2024
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 142 contains the following short stories, essays, reviews, and interviews. EDITORIAL Musings from Maryland by Lesley Conner ORIGINAL SHORT FICTION Spread the Word by Delilah S. Dawson Born a Ghost by Nadia Bongo Just You and Me, Now by KT Bryski When No One Has to Say Goodbye by Elisabeth Ring FLASH FICTION Then Came the Ghost of My Dead Mother, Antikleia by Nadia Radovich For As Long As You Want It by Kanishk Tantia CLASSIC FICTION The Man Who Fed Dilophosaurs by M.M. Olivas The Enduring by Eugen Bacon NONFICTION I Like Movies Too: Loving Movies Made for the Male Gaze by Somer Canon Horror Tells Me I’m Not Alone by John Wiswell Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review by AC Wise INTERVIEWS Interview with Author Nadia Bongo by Marissa van Uden Interview with Author Elisabeth Ring by Marissa van Uden Interview with Artist Adrian Borda by Bradley Powers
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Robert Leubner@gracchus
4 stars
Jan 25, 2024

I have finished Apex 142. There were a pair of really creepy stories. I told the story "Just You and Me, Now" to a relative. Too scary was the judgment. I liked the slowly creeping horror from a perfect idyllic about the growing despair to the end. I'm never going to be camping, check! I liked the energy of Will in Spread the Word and the fine distinction of circumstances in the lives of different families. When No Has to Say Goodbye was very heavy. You can't die, only suffer, except you will be devoured and assimilated by a gray mass of skin, flesh, bones and intestines. An entity that eats your individuality. What a horror. I have read the rest except "The Enduring". As I read about thoughts dipped in coffee I skipped the story. Too many riddles in the text of this story.