Apex Magazine Issue 111

Apex Magazine is a monthly science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction from many of the top pros of the field. New issues are released on the first Tuesday of every month.

This month Sheree Renée Thomas is a special guest editor of a zodiac and astrology themed issue!

EDITORIAL
Under Ancient Stars, New Dreams Are Born—Sheree Renée Thomas

FICTION
For Southern Girls When the Zodiac Ain’t Near Enough—Eden Royce
Prism—Stefanie Elrick
La Ciguapa, For the Reeds, For Herself—J.M. Guzman
Gasping—Brandon O’Brien
Jewel of the Vashwa—Jordan Kurella
The Barnum Effect—Celia Neri

POETRY
How to Paint Mercury—Mary Soon Lee
Capricorn—Tara Betts
How to Fly by Neptune—Mary Soon Lee
Celestial Mary (Galilean Daughter)—Sherese Francis
How to Speak to Pluto—Mary Soon Lee
A Theorized Form of Matter—Ashely Adams

NONFICTION
‘There’s No Racism Here?’ A Black Woman in the Dominican Republic—Kiini Ibura Salaam

COLUMNS
Page Advice—Mallory O’Meara and Brea Grant
Between the Lines with the Print Run Podcast—Laura Zats and Erik Hane

INTERVIEWS
Interview with Author Eden Royce—Andrea Johnson
Interview with Cover Artist Stacey Robinson—Russell Dickerson

FICTION
The Chariots, the Horsemen — Stephanie Malia Morris
When You're Ready — M. Ian Bell
Kerouac's Renascence — Tal M. Klein
All Clear — Hao He
The Whipping Girls — Damien Angelica Walters

NONFICTION
Interview with Stephanie Malia Morris — Andrea Johnson
Interview with Cover Artist Kim Myatt — Russell Dickerson
Undead: The Making of a Poetry Anthology — Katerina Stoykova
Nexhuman: From Origin to Transaltion: The Long Path from Italy to the US — Francesco Verso
Five Things to Remember When Running a Writer's Convention — Kelly Swails and Melanie R. Meadors

COLUMNS
Between the Lines with Laura Zats and Erik Hane
Page Advice with Mallory O'Meara and Brea Grant

POETRY
the undead — Allison Thorpe
Ghost Ships — Amy MacLennan