Apex Magazine August 2018

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.

This month Sheree Renée Thomas guest-edits a special Zodiac themed issue!

EDITORIAL Under Ancient Stars, New Dreams Are Born—Sheree Renée Thomas

FICTION For Southern Girls When the Zodiac Ain’t Near Enough—Eden Royce Prism—Stefanie Elrick La Ciguapa, For the Reeds, For Herself—J.M. Guzman Gasping—Brandon O’Brien Jewel of the Vashwa—Jordan Kurella The Barnum Effect—Celia Neri

POETRY How to Paint Mercury—Mary Soon Lee Capricorn—Tara Betts How to Fly by Neptune—Mary Soon Lee Celestial Mary (Galilean Daughter)—Sherese Francis How to Speak to Pluto—Mary Soon Lee A Theorized Form of Matter—Ashely Adams

NONFICTION ‘There’s No Racism Here?’ A Black Woman in the Dominican Republic—Kiini Ibura Salaam

COLUMNS Page Advice—Mallory O’Meara and Brea Grant Between the Lines with the Print Run Podcast—Laura Zats and Erik Hane

INTERVIEWS Interview with Author Eden Royce—Andrea Johnson Interview with Cover Artist Stacey Robinson—Russell Dickerson