Apex Magazine Issue 79

Apex Magazine is a monthly science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction from many of the top pros of the field. New issues are released on the first Tuesday of every month.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Fiction
Aishiteru Means I Love You — Troy Tang
She Gave Her Heart, He Took Her Marrow — Sam Fleming
The Phylactery — Nick Mamatas
Memory Tree — Jes Rausch
Nemesis — Laird Barron
A Letter to Santa — Melanie Rees (Christmas Invasion Flash Fiction Winner)
Christmas is Coming — Gina L. Grandi (Christmas Invasion Flash Fiction Winner)
Reconstituted — Marlee Jane Ward (Christmas Invasion Flash Fiction Winner)

Nonfiction
Shiny Books and Corinthians: Writing Historical Fiction without Cliches — Jennie Goloboy
Interview with Author Sam Fleming — Andrea Johnson
Interview with Artist Irek Konior — Russell Dickerson

Poetry
Grotesque — J.J. Hunter
Myrrh, and the Sun — Lara Ek

Editorial
Words from the Editor-in-Chief — Jason Sizemore