Apex Magazine Issue 125

By Maggie Slater, Keturah Barchers, Jason Sanford, and more

2021

First Published

4.35

Average Rating

194

Number of Pages

5H53M

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Part of Series

Apex Magazine

Series · 127 books

By Pamela K. Taylor, Zen Cho, Eugen Bacon, and more

Original Fiction: "COTTONMOUTH" by Joelle Wellington "Next to Cleanliness" by Rose Keating "Discontinuity" by Jared Millet "Candyland" by Maggie Slater "Gift for the Cutter Man" by D. Thomas Minton "Wake Up, I Miss You" by Rachel Swirsky Classic Fiction: "Deep Night" by Tenea D. Johnson "The Ever-Dreaming Verdict of Plagues" by Jason Sanford "The Rat" by Yohanca Delgado Nonfiction: "Alone? or, How a Survivalist Reality TV Show Defangs Publishing's Narrow Definition of Agency" by Maria Dong "Flesh Eggs" by Ken MacGregor

Avg Rating

4.35

Number of Ratings

5 STARS

47%

4 STARS

41%

3 STARS

12%

2 STARS

1 STARS

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Authors

Jason Sanford is three-time finalist for the Nebula Award and an active member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Born and raised in the American South, he currently lives in the Midwestern U.S. His life's adventures include work as an archaeologist and as a Peace Corps Volunteer. Jason's first novel Plague Birds will be released by Apex Books in September 2021. He has published dozens of short stories in Asimov's Science Fiction, Interzone, Analog: Science Fiction and Fact, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Fireside Magazine, and other places. Books containing his stories include multiple "year's best" story collections and The New Voices of Science Fiction. Jason’s awards and honors include being a finalist for the Nebula Awards for Best Novella, Best Novelette and Best Short Story. He has also won two Interzone Readers' Polls for best story of the year and been a co-winner of a third Poll. Jason's other honors include receiving a Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship, being nominated for the BSFA Award, and being longlisted for the British Fantasy Award. His stories have been named to multiple Locus Recommended Reading Lists along with being translated into a number of languages including Chinese, Spanish, French, Russian, Polish, Hungarian, Italian and Czech.

A.C. Wise's fiction has appeared in publications such as Uncanny, Shimmer, and Tor.com, among other places. She had two collections published with Lethe Press, and a novella published by Broken Eye Books. Her debut novel, Wendy, Darling, is out from Titan Books n June 2021, and a new collection, The Ghost Sequences, is forthcoming from Undertow Books in October 2021. Her work has won the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, as well as being a two-time Nebula finalist, a two-time Sunburst finalist, an Aurora finalist, and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. In addition to her fiction, she contributes review columns to the Book Smugglers and Apex Magazine, and has been a finalist for the Ignyte Award in the Critics category.

Rachel Swirsky holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop and is a graduate of Clarion West. Her work has been short-listed for the Nebula, the Hugo, and the Sturgeon Award, and placed second in 2010's Million Writers Award. In addition to numerous publications in magazines and anthologies, Swirsky is the author of three short stories published as e-books, "Eros, Philia, Agape," "The Memory of Wind," and "The Monster's Million Faces." Her fiction and poetry has been collected in THROUGH THE DROWSY DARK (Aqueduct Press, 2010). A second collection, HOW THE WORLD BECAME QUIET: MYTHS OF THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE, is forthcoming from Subterranean Press.

Ken MacGregor

Author · 9 books

Ken MacGregor’s short stories have appeared in dozens of anthologies, magazines and podcasts. One of his stories was nominated for the Micro Award. Ken is a member in good standing of The Great Lakes Association of Horror Writers and an Affiliate member of HWA. He lives in Michigan with his family.He can be found on Facebook (Ken MacGregor - Author), Amazon and at ken-macgregor.com.

Born and raised in the Bronx. NY. Andrea was writing from the age of ten. She wrote and produced the first stage play in her junior high school, created paranormal short stories for her high school newspaper, and formed the youth group G.G.S. (God's Given Saints) at the age of twelve. Her first book, Blood of my Blood was released in 2009 and created inspiration to young new writers. Her stories have a reputation for the wild and unusual, and have been an entertainment for many years. Her motto is: Make each day count. And live every day as if it were your last. Andrea lives in Dallas TX with her husband, kids, her German Sheppard: Prince, and beautiful black cat: Rubia. Visit her Amazon author page at: amazon.com/author/andreaj

Joelle Wellington

Author · 6 books

Joelle Wellington is the author of Their Vicious Games. She grew up in Brooklyn, New York, where her childhood was spent wandering the main branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. When she isn’t writing, she’s reading and when she’s not doing that, she’s attempting to bake bread with varying degrees of success or strengthening her encyclopedia-like pop culture knowledge. She can be found on Twitter under @joelle_welling.

D. Thomas Minton

Author · 4 books

D. Thomas Minton writes from his home in the mountains of British Columbia, Canada, but life has given him the opportunity to live and work in many places around the world. When not writing, he helps indigenous communities across the Pacific Ocean conserve their ocean resources for future generations. His training in science and his cultural experiences often inform his humanist (and at times dystopian) science fiction. He is the author of the Calypto Cycle, a series of espionage thrillers set in an alternative 1920s eastern Europe and the middle east. The fourth book in the series, Messages from the Sand, was released in November 2019. His short fiction has appeared in Asimov's, Lightspeed Magazine, InterGalactic Medicine Show, and many other anthologies and magazines. "The Schrödinger War," which appeared in Lightspeed Magazine (Sept 2013), was a 2014 storySouth Millions Writer Notable story and his fiction has appeared on multiple year-end recommended reading lists. He is an active member of the Science Fiction Writers of America.

Rose Keating is a writer from Waterford, Ireland. She received an MA in creative writing prose fiction from the University of East Anglia, where she was a recipient of the Malcolm Bradbury Scholarship and the Curtis Brown Prize for best dissertation. She is a winner of the Marian Keyes Young Writer Award, the Hot Press Write Here, Write Now Prize, and the Ted and Mary O’Regan Arts Bursary. She has been published in The Stinging Fly, Apex Magazine, Banshee, and Southword. In 2022, she received an Agility Award from the Irish Arts Council to fund the completion of her debut short story collection, Oddbody.