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<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>