Apex Magazine Issue 111

With guest editor Sheree Renée Thomas. EDITORIAL Under Ancient Stars, New Dreams Are Born by Sheree Renée Thomas FICTION Prism by Stefanie Elrick La Ciguapa, For the Reeds, For Herself by J.M. Guzman Gasping by Brandon O’Brien Jewel of the Vashwa by Jordan Kurella The Barnum Effect by Celia Neri For Southern Girls When the Zodiac Ain't Near Enough by Eden Royce POETRY How to Paint Mercury by Mary Soon Lee Capricorn by Tara Betts How to Fly by Neptune by Mary Soon Lee Celestial Mary (Galilean Daughter) by Sherese Francis How to Speak to Pluto by Mary Soon Lee A Theorized Form of Matter by Ashely Adams NONFICTION ‘There’s No Racism Here?’ A Black Woman in the Dominican Republic by Kiini Ibura Salaam Page Advice by Mallory O’Meara and Brea Grant Between the Lines with the Print Run Podcast by Laura Zats and Erik Hane INTERVIEWS Interview with Author Eden Royce by Andrea Johnson Interview with Cover Artist Stacey Robinson by Russell Dickerson DRM-free