Apex Magazine January 2018

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. 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 (translated by Andy Dudak) 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 POETRY Treebound — Mary Soon Lee Monster: Puppeteer — Mary Soon Lee the saddest of angels — Jeremy Paden NONFICTION Interview with Lila Bowen — Andrea Johnson Interview with Cover Artist Daniele Serra — Russell Dickerson Orrin Evans: The Pioneer of Black Comic Book Publishing — Shawn Pryor Fear of Failure 2.0 — Damien Angelica Walters COLUMNS Between the Lines with Laura Zats and Erik Hane Page Advice with Mallory O'Meara and Brea Grant