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. EDITORIAL Words from the Editor-in-Chief—Jason Sizemore FICTION Soliloquy in a Cheap Dinner Off Route 66—James Beamon The Dark Birds—Ursula Vernon The Invisible Box—J.J. Litke Next Station, Shibuya—Iori Kusano The Quiltmaker—Mike Allen Mag, the Habitat, and We—Lia Swope Mitchell Masked—Rich Larson NONFICTION Interview with Author James Beamon—Andrea Johnson The Once and Future Chief: Tecumseh in (Science) Fiction—Amy H. Sturgis Interview with Cover Artist Aaron Nakahara—Russell Dickerson POETRY Disobedient—Barton Paul Levenson On the Edge of the Stone-Meadow—Laura Madeline Wiseman Wormhole—Tracy May Adair The Galatea—Amanda Pekar