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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 139 contains the following short stories, essays, reviews, and interviews.

EDITORIAL

Musings from Maryland by Lesley Conner

ORIGINAL SHORT FICTION

The Monster Fucker Club by A.V. Greene

Dolly Girl by Christopher Rowe

Island Circus by Amal Singh

But I Loved You by Sachiko Ragosta

The Discarded Ones by Linda Niehoff

The Magazine of Horror by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki

FLASH FICTION

Gim of P by Benjamin DeHaan

You and Me and The End by Mona West

CLASSIC FICTION

A Young Zombie in Crisis by Walidah Imarisha

You Without Me by Endria Isa Richardson

NONFICTION

Outside of Language: Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal by Andrea Johnson

Renfield: Blood is the Life (But Only if Necessary) by Rick Hipson

INTERVIEWS

Interview with Author A.V. Greene by Marissa van Uden

Interview with Author Sachiko Ragosta by Marissa van Uden

Interview with Cover Artist Lauren Raye Snow by Bradley Powers