Strange. Beautiful. Shocking. Surreal. APEX MAGAZINE is a digital dark science fiction and fantasy genre zine that features award-winning short fiction, essays, and interviews. Established in 2009, our fiction has won several Hugo and Nebula Awards. We publish every other month. Issue 124 contains the following: EDITORIAL Editorial by Jason Sizemore ORIGINAL FICTION Without Wishes to Bind You by E. Catherine Tobler How to Be Good by R Gatwood Osu by Kingsley Okpii Survival, After by Nicole J. LeBoeuf What Sisters Take by Kelly Sandoval Eilam Is Forever by Beth Dawkins REPRINTED FICTION The Fine Print by Chinelo Onwualu The Shadow We Cast Through Time by Indrapramit Das INTERVIEWS Interview with Author R Gatwood by Andrea Johnson Interview with Author Kelly Sandoval by Andrea Johnson Interview with Cover Artist Martina Boscolo by Russell Dickerson NONFICTION A Special Kind of Gaze: Meta-Representation in Science Fiction by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro Dialog, Patois: If It's Good Enough for Anthony Burgess, It's Good Enough for You by Tonya Liburd REVIEWS Review of The Best of World SF edited by Lavie Tidhar Review of Apocalypse Cancelled edited by Luke Melia Words for Thought: Short Fiction Reviews by A.C. Wise

The March/April 2016 issue of <em>Uncanny Magazine.</em><br><br> Featuring new fiction by Rachel Swirsky, Shveta Thakrar, Max Gladstone, Kelly Sandoval, and Simon Guerrier, classic fiction by Daryl Gregory, essays by Jim C. Hines, Kyell Gold, Javier Grillo-Marxuach, and Mark Oshiro, poetry by C.S.E. Cooney, Jennifer Crow, and Brandon O'Brien, interviews with Rachel Swirsky and Simon Guerrier by Deborah Stanish, a cover by Katy Shuttleworth, and an editoral by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas.

The best vegan-friendly science fiction and fantasy stories of 2016. Twelve stories of mysterious aliens, unusual pets, messages from the future, witchcraft, and much more. And what's more, they're all vegan friendly. These aren't stories about vegans, but stories that happen to be vegan. No preaching, just interesting ideas, good stories, and great writing! Stories include: My Dog is the Constellation Canis Major - Jarod K. Anderson Images Across a Shattered Sea - Stewart Baker Rowboat - K. G. Anderson Daughter of the Sea - George Nikolopoulos Tides of Reflection - Mark Rookyard Lift Up Your Cores, O Ye Ships - Tracy Canfield Strix Antiqua - Hamilton Perez May Dreams Shelter Us - Kate O'Connor Spoiler: She Leaves Him - Jack Noble Murder on the Adriana - James Ross Closed Circuit - J. S. Arquin Small Magics - Kelly Sandoval

Sirens are beautiful, dangerous, and musical, whether they come from the sea or the sky. Greek sirens were described as part-bird, part-woman, and Roman sirens more like mermaids, but both had a voice that could captivate and destroy the strongest man. The pages of this book contain the stories of the Sirens of old, but also allow for modern re-imaginings, plucking the sirens out of their natural elements and placing them at a high school football game, or in wartime London, or even into outer space. Featuring stories by Kelly Sandoval, Amanda Kespohl, L.S. Johnson, Pat Flewwelling, Gabriel F. Cuellar, Randall G. Arnold, Micheal Leonberger, V. F. LeSann, Tamsin Showbrook, Simon Kewin, Cat McDonald, Sandra Wickham, K.T. Ivanrest, Adam L. Bealby, Eliza Chan, and Tabitha Lord, these siren songs will both exemplify and defy your expectations.

When we make a habit of gratitude, we have a more positive attitude. An amazing thing is that being grateful is a choice that you can make everyday. This is journal for taking notes on how grateful you are for things, or when you have activities between you and your children

Under the editorial direction of Suzanne W. Vincent, Flash Fiction Online is proud to bring you its 2015 Anthology -- over thirty stories originally published in Flash Fiction Online and some of our favorite flash fiction from other venues as well. Spanning genres, from John Guzlowski's literary piece, "The Last Man on Earth - A Mini-Novel" to Eleanor R. Wood's science fictional "Fibonacci", there's certain to be something here for everyone. This unforgettable collection contains some of the best and brightest names in short fiction today, including Caroline M. Yoachim, Chuck Rothman, Laura Pearlman, Oliver Buckram, Kelly Sandoval, Samantha Murray, Leslianne Wilder, Krystal Claxton, Matthew F. Amati, and more.

The best vegan science fiction and fantasy stories of 2016. Twelve stories of mysterious aliens, unusual pets, messages from the future, witchcraft, and much more. And what's more, they're all vegan friendly - no skipping over the ugly parts. There are none! Just interesting ideas, good stories, and great writing!Stories include: My Dog is the Constellation Canis Major - Jarod K. AndersonImages Across a Shattered Sea - Stewart BakerRowboat - K. G. AndersonDaughter of the Sea - George NikolopoulosTides of Reflection - Mark RookyardLift Up Your Cores, O Ye Ships - Tracy CanfieldStrix Antiqua - Hamilton PerezMay Dreams Shelter Us - Kate O'ConnorSpoiler: She Leaves Him - Jack NobleMurder on the Adriana - James RossClosed Circuit - J. S. ArquinSmall Magics - Kelly Sandoval

This month's stories are all about change. For some, it is expected, for others not. Each character deals with it differently, some successfully, some not. But each story touches the heart and, hopefully, will make your next life change a little richer. First up, from Hannah Dela Cruz, an understated literary piece about a snowy day and Robert Redford-"A Box Full of Winter." From FFO Alum, a fantasy offering about the metaphysical manifestations of grief in Kelly Sandoval's "A Menagerie of Grief." Another FFO Alum, Kat Otis, offers us "Hinterlight Abby." A science fiction story, life aboard a generation ship pairs with belief in unexpected and unsettling ways. And, finally, this month's reprint selection, "Molten Heart," by yet another FFO Alum, Alexis A. Hunter. Get out your tissues. This science fiction tale of maternal love found in an unlikely place will touch even the stoniest hearts. Plus a new FXXK WRITING column by Jason S. Ridler. Fiction has always fought back. Just remember, if nothing ever changed there would be no butterflies.

I stole this life fair and square. And I won't let her steal it back. My first memory is of being abandoned by the fae. They threw me away, a cheap replacement for the human child they took. The way I see it, the girl I replaced got the better deal. She gets a fairytale world. I get student debt and a bad habit of turning my exes into animals. That all changes when she drags me into Faerie, trapping me there while she takes my life. Sure, she had it first, but I had it longer. Who knows what she'll get up to, while I'm dodging murderous dragons and trying to discover the cause of a plague that traps fae souls in human vessels. In Faerie, my only ally is one of the fae's human pets, Nightingale. Sardonic, gorgeous, and broken by magic, she's the sort of woman I'd fall for if I dared to let people close. Instead, she's my ticket out of this place. Well, either that, or she's the one responsible for the plague. To escape Faerie, I'll need to prove that I'm more than a throwaway changeling. But to get my life back, I'll have to make peace with the human I took it from.