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.br/br/Our March issue begins with Darin Bradley's "The Dust and the Red" where a young girl, a terrible dirt storm, and a little wax man are held in thrall by magical powers from the earth.br/br/Kat Howard's "The Speaking Bone" sees a woman miraculously resurrected by bones from a mysterious island.br/br/And in Veronica Schanoes' creepy "Rats", we meet the evil and pain lurking just beneath the surface in all of us.br/br/Issue 22 also contains the poems "Quest" by Jessica Wick and "The King of Cats, the Queen of Wolves" by Mike Allen, Sonya Taaffe, and Nicole Kornher-Stace.br/br/Apex Magazine is edited by Catherynne M. Valente.