Apex Magazine Issue 130

<p><em>Strange. Beautiful. Shocking. Surreal.</em></p> <p>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.</p> <p>We publish every other month.</p> <p>Issue 130 contains the following short stories, essays, reviews, and interviews.</p> <p>EDITORIAL<br> Musings from Maryland: Editorial by Lesley Conner</p> <p>ORIGINAL FICTION<br> Nine Theories of Time by Spencer Nitkey<br> To Live and Die in Dixieland by Russell Nichols<br> The First Promise We Break by Risa Wolf<br> Tenure by Devon Mihesuah<br> It Rises and Falls and Rises Again by RJ Taylor<br> Strata by Benjamin Blattberg</p> <p>CLASSIC FICTION<br> An Arc of Electric Skin by Wole Talabi<br> In the Garden of Ibn Ghazi by Molly Tanzer</p> <p>NONFICTION<br> Always and Forever by Milton J. Davis<br> Never Let the Light Go Out by Linda D. Addison</p> <p>REVIEWS<br> Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review by A.C. Wise<br> Book Review: A Spindle Splintered Alix E. Harrow (reviewed by Lesley Conner)<br> Book Review: Sweep of Stars by Maurice Broaddus (reviewed by Tracy Robinson)</p> <p>INTERVIEWS<br> Interview with Author Spencer Nitkey by Andrea Johnson<br> Interview with Author RJ Taylor by Andrea Johnson<br> Interview with Cover Artist JR Slattum by Bradley Powers</p>