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. Contents of this issue: A Poor Man’s Roses • Alethea Kontis • ss To Dream of Stars: An Astronomer’s Lament • Peter M. Ball • ss Ghost Technology from the Sun • Paul Jessup • ss After, Thoughts: A Pantoum • J. C. Hay • pm An Interview with Brandon Massey [Brandon R. Massey] • Maurice Broaddus • iv