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 Folk Hero—Mary Pletsch Cuckoo Girls—Douglas F. Warrick Memorials—Aliette de Bodard The Kraken Sea (Novel Excerpt) — E. Catherine Tobler NONFICTION Interview with Author Mary Pletsch—Andrea Johnson Interview with Joe Baden, Cover Artist—Russell Dickerson SEEKING TANIS. Runner Available—Betsy Phillips POETRY Later, they found her journal—Tina Parker Ghost Plague—Tina Jens By Payette Lake—Cullen Groves