Apex Magazine Issue 104

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.

Double issue special!

Our magazine is now available in print!

EDITORIAL
Words from the Editor-in-Chief—Jason Sizemore

FICTION
Asylum of Cuckoos — Lila Bowen
To Blight a Fig Tree Before It Bears Fruit — Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley
A Night Out at a Nice Place — Nick Mamatas
The Heaven-Moving Way — Chi Hui
Symphony to a city under the stars — Armando Saldaña
The Ghost Stories We Tell Around Photon Fires — Cassandra Khaw
The Best Friend We Never Had — Nisi Shawl
Origin Story — T. Kingfisher

NONFICTION
Interview with Lila Bowen (Delilah S. Dawson) — Andrea Johnson
Interview with Cover Artist Daniele Serra — Russel Dickerson
Orrin Evans: The Pioneer of Black Comic Book Publishing — Shawn Pryor
Fear of Failure 2.0 — Damien Angelica Walters

POETRY
Treebound — Mary Soon Lee
Monster: Puppeteer — Mary Soon Lee
the saddest of angels — Jeremy Paden

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