Apex Magazine Issue 154

EDITORIAL "Musings from Maryland" by Lesley Conner ORIGINAL FICTION "Cervidae, New and Sharp" by Anj Baker "When I Heard Calypso" by Rob Cameron "Dispatch From My Ex-Girlfriend's Lower Intestine" by A.M. Maris "Parts and Halves" by Alia Ai-Ming Shahzad "It Starts With Teeth" by Stefan Alcalá Slater "The Light Below" by C.M. Sullivan FLASH FICTION "Boys of the Fellwood" by David R. Hoffman "In the Blue Hour" by RJ Aurand "We Were Once Twelve" by S.C. Pires ESSAYS "Learning From the Nerds: Game Writing Techniques That Apply To Fiction" by Richard Dansky "Reality, Exhaustion, and AI" by Lesley Conner "Words for Thought" by A.C. Wise CLASSIC FICTION "The Once-girl Made of Mycellium" by Shingai Njeri Kagunda "N-raptured" by Justin C. Key INTERVIEWS Interview with Author Anj Baker by Marissa van Uden Interview with Author Alia Ai-Ming Shahzad by Marissa van Uden Interview with Artist Jeleynai by Bradley Powers