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Apex Magazine, August 2009

By Kimberly Lundstrom ⋅ August 29, 2009

Eugie Foster’s stunning novelette, “Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast” [originally published in Interzone] is the highlight of Apex Magazine’s August 2009 issue. Each day, the nameless narrator dons a different, exquisitely crafted mask and takes on a persona tied to that mask, complete with unique life circumstances. All of the [...]

Apex Magazine, May 2009

By Kimberly Lundstrom ⋅ August 8, 2009

The May 2009 issue of Apex Magazine features three stories of characters navigating a changed or changing world.
“Hideki and the Gnomes” by Mark Lee Pearson has the haunting quality of a dark fairy tale murmured in the flickering light of a dying fire. Yet it is entirely modern. Hideki looks on as, one by one, [...]

Apex Magazine, April 2009

By Kimberly Lundstrom ⋅ August 7, 2009

If you read just one of the three stories in the April issue of Apex Magazine, make it “Waiting for Jakie” by Barbara Krasnoff. With the help of just a little extra anxiety medication (”who would begrudge it”), an elderly Holocaust survivor journeys back decades and thousands of miles to step into the consciousness of [...]

Apex Magazine, March 2009

By Kimberly Lundstrom ⋅ April 10, 2009

If the three pieces of original fiction in the March issue of Apex Magazine are any indication, the issue’s theme could be summed up as the intersection between beast and human.
Ekaterina Sedia’s “The Mind of a Pig” opens with Joel’s discovery that he is actually a pig, not the human he thought he was. As [...]

Apex Magazine, February 2009

By Kimberly Lundstrom ⋅ March 5, 2009

February 2009’s Apex Magazine is not for the faint of heart, as two of its three stories feature fairly graphic depictions of sexual abuse. Consider yourself forewarned.
In “Tearing Down Tuesday” by Steven Francis Murphy, Kyle has stayed with the local fix-it woman, Audrey, since his father was killed and his mother left town. Amid rumors [...]

Apex Magazine, January 2009

By Kimberly Lundstrom ⋅ February 12, 2009

Apex Magazine offers three stories in its January, 2009, edition:
In Jason Palmer’s “Starter House,” Dale and Pam take the exciting and nerve-racking step of purchasing their first home, a means to living on their own outside the colony dome. It is a big undertaking, with the feed to keep the thing alive and the restraints [...]

Apex Magazine, August 2008

By Z. S. Adani ⋅ January 31, 2009

The August, 2008, selections of Apex Magazine offer a variety of fiction that differs in tone and mood, as well as in length and style.
The short-short “Just an Old Man” by Maurice Broaddus is a quick character sketch of a man’s life. Webster Johnson is an old man sitting on a bench and waiting for [...]

Apex Magazine, December 2008

By Kimberly Lundstrom ⋅ January 23, 2009

Apex Magazine closed out 2008 with short fiction including a Hugo Award nominee and three other strong stories, all of which give the reader something worth pondering.
In Michael A. Burstein’s “Paying It Forward,” an aspiring young writer is surprised to receive a return email from an author he admired, not because that author is too [...]

Apex Magazine, November 2008

By Kimberly Lundstrom ⋅ January 23, 2009

Apex Magazine, “where science fiction and horror collide,” offered four pieces of original short fiction in November, 2008.
“Behold: Skowt!” declares the tag, sprayed “coast to coast. Or at least…working on it” by the 14-year-old protagonist in this story by Jason Heller. Skowt hustles and spray-paints his way through a hardscrabble existence in a bleak future [...]

Apex Magazine, July 2008

By Z. S. Adani ⋅ January 14, 2009

The July, 2008, offerings of Apex Magazine begin with “These Days” by Katherine Sparrow, a sad tale featuring teenagers in a dystopian city preceded by mass insanity, suicides, and famine. Tom, Miranda, and the twins, Zaki One and Zaki Two, roam the city together, barely surviving on tainted food and playing music to whomever [...]

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