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

EDITORIAL
Musings from Maryland: Editorial by Lesley Conner

ORIGINAL FICTION
Nine Theories of Time by Spencer Nitkey
To Live and Die in Dixieland by Russell Nichols
The First Promise We Break by Risa Wolf
Tenure by Devon Mihesuah
It Rises and Falls and Rises Again by RJ Taylor
Strata by Benjamin Blattberg

CLASSIC FICTION
An Arc of Electric Skin by Wole Talabi
In the Garden of Ibn Ghazi by Molly Tanzer

NONFICTION
Always and Forever by Milton J. Davis
Never Let the Light Go Out by Linda D. Addison

REVIEWS
Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review by A.C. Wise
Book Review: A Spindle Splintered Alix E. Harrow (reviewed by Lesley Conner)
Book Review: Sweep of Stars by Maurice Broaddus (reviewed by Tracy Robinson)

INTERVIEWS
Interview with Author Spencer Nitkey by Andrea Johnson
Interview with Author RJ Taylor by Andrea Johnson
Interview with Cover Artist JR Slattum by Bradley Powers