Apex Magazine Issue 151

EDITORIAL Musings from Maryland by Lesley Conner ORIGINAL FICTION "Liecraft" by Anita Moskát, translated by Austin Wagner "Ghosts of Summer" by Catherine Tavares  "Code Green" by Rebecca Johnson  "We Used to Wake to Song" by Leah Ning "The Horrible Conceit of Death and Night" by J.A. Prentice  Excerpt from ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction — "The Water Runner" by Eugen Bacon FLASH FICTION "The Fate You Choose" by Nadia Radovich  "FAQ on My Vagina Dentata" by Jarune Uwujaren  "Cassandra and the Changeling" by R.J. Sterling  ESSAYS "Dust, Stars, and Shadows: How Western Genre Literature Helped Shape Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror" by Michael Knost  "More than Lighting: Speculative Noir" by Premee Mohamed  "Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review" by A.C. Wise  CLASSIC FICTION "Before, After, and the Space Between" by Kel Coleman  "Come Here, Ofelia" by Cynthia Gómez  INTERVIEWS Interview with Author Anita Moskát and Translator Austin Wagner by Marissa van Uden Interview with Author Leah Ning by Marissa van Uden  Interview with Artist Natasa Illincic by Bradley Powers THE MASKS WE WEAR "Exuviae" by Mari Harrison  "Don't Hide from the Mirror" by Nico Martinez Nocito "Involuntary Self" by Jim Horlock REACH YOUR APEX WEIRD WEST FLASH "Horse and Rider" by Christine Beres