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 the first Tuesday of every month. Fiction “Victimless Crimes” by Charlie Jane Anders “A Matter of Shapespace” by Brian Trent “Sister Twelve: Confessions of a Party Monster” by Christopher Barzak Nonfiction “Blood on Vellum: Notes from the Editor-in-Chief” by Lynne M. Thomas “Fantasy Art, Fishnets, and Red Sonja’s Chainmail Bikini” by Tansy Rayner Roberts “Interview with Christopher Barzak” by Maggie Slater Issue 51 is dedicated to Will Savage, one of our submissions editors, who passed away suddenly Cover art by Carrie Ann Baade.