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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 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 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