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