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. TABLE OF CONTENTS Editorial Words from the Editor-in-Chief—Jason Sizemore Fiction The Laura Ingalls Experience—Andrew Neil Gray The Teratologist's Brother—Brandon H. Bell The Quidnunx—Catherynne M. Valente Collecting James—Geoffrey Girard Nonfiction Interview with Author Andrew Neil Gray—Andrea Johnson Interview with Sarah Zar, Cover Artist—Russell Dickerson Poetry Fertility—Craig Finlay The Farmer's Milk—John Yu Branscum Myth of the Mud God—Michael VanCalbergh Song of the Encantado—Jeremy Paden Cover art by Sarah Zar.