Apex Magazine: Issue 37
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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.
Table of Contents
Fiction:
"Winter Scheming" by Brit Mandelo
"In the Dark" by Ian Nichols
"Blocked" by Geoff Ryman
Poetry:
"Wounds" by Seanan McGuire
Nonfiction:
"Editorial: Blood on Vellum" by Lynne M. Thomas
"Girl Meets House: Kitchen Sinks, Joanna Russ and the Female Gothic" by Tim Akers
"Interview with Geoff Ryman" by Maggie Slater
Cover art by Ken Wong
Apex Magazine is edited by Hugo Award-winning editor Lynne M. Thomas.
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Apex Magazine - Lynne M. Thomas
APEX MAGAZINE
Issue 37
June, 2012
Smashwords Edition
Copyrights and Acknowledgments
Blood on Vellum: Notes from the Apex Editor-in-Chief
Copyright 2012 by Lynne M. Thomas
Winter Scheming
Copyright 2012 by Brit Mandelo
In the Dark
Copyright 2012 by Ian Nichols
Blocked
Copyright 2009 by Geoff Ryman (Originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October-November 2009)
Girl Meets House: Kitchen Sinks, Joanna Russ and the Female Gothic
Copyright 2012 by Tansy Rayner Roberts
Wounds
Copyright 2012 by Seanan McGuire
An Interview with Geoff Ryman
Copyright 2012 by Maggie Slater
Publisher—Jason Sizemore
Editor-in-Chief—Lynne M. Thomas
Senior Editor—Gill Ainsworth
Managing Editor—Damian Taylor
Slush Editors—Zakaraya Anwar, Deanna Knippling, Sarah E. Olson, Olga Zelenova, George Galuschak, Sigrid Ellis, Andy Arnold, Travis Knight, Michael Matheson, Eileen Maksym, and Kelly Lagor
Graphic Designer—Justin Stewart
ISSN: 2157-1406
Apex Publications
PO Box 24323
Lexington, KY 40524
Please visit our website at http://www.apex-magazine.com.
Each new issue of Apex Magazine is released the first Tuesday of the month. Single issues are available for $2.99. Subscriptions are available for twelve months and cost $19.95.
Cover art: Ionesco
by Ken Wong. Ken Wong is a freelance artist and designer, hailing from Adelaide, Australia. His work spans from dark, surreal portraits of sad girls to quirky children's book illustrations. He recently served as art director on the Gothic video game Alice: Madness Returns. As of this moment he's programming and creating art for an independent iPhone/iPad game called Hackycat.
Visit http://www.kenart.net/ to view more work from this amazing artist.
Table of Contents
Editorial
Blood on Vellum: Words from the Apex Magazine Editor
Lynne M. Thomas
Short Fiction
Winter Scheming
Brit Mandelo
In the Dark
Ian Nichols
Blocked
Geoff Ryman
Poetry
Wounds
Seanan McGuire
Nonfiction
Girl Meets House: Kitchen Sinks, Joanna Russ and the Female Gothic
Tansy Rayner Roberts
An Interview with Geoff Ryman
Maggie Slater
Blood on Vellum: Words from the Apex Magazine Editor
In this issue, I’m sharing an eclectic group of works that took my breath away when I read them. Brit Mandelo writes of anger, domestic abuse, and retribution in Winter Scheming.
Ian Nichols’s In the Dark,
is a frightening tale of all-consuming darkness from a Welsh mine. Our classic revisited this month is Geoff Ryman’s Blocked,
a futuristic story about family and masculinity recently collected in his short story collection Paradise Tales (Small Beer Press). Seanan McGuire’s poem Wounds
describes the scars that remain, even when our perseverance proves successful.
Tansy Rayner Roberts returns as our nonfiction contributor this month and argues in Girl Meets House
that the gothic novel is well overdue for a comeback, with a feminist deconstructive twist. Geoff Ryman also discusses his writing process, writing the other, and managing research in an interview with Maggie Slater.
It’s summer and SF/F convention season again, which means you can find me at several upcoming conventions as I attend readings, participate in panels, and generally hang out.
WisCon (http://www.wiscon.info) will have gone by in a whirl of crunchy feminist SF/F convention goodness by the time this issue debuts. I hope I saw you there.
In mid-to-late June, I’ll be part of the discussion going on at Fourth Street Fantasy Conversation, (http://www.4thstreetfantasy.com/2012/) one of my favorite events for intimate, literature-centric discussions with lots of writers, editors, publishers, scholars and fans. Fourth Street features single-track programming on thoughtful topics with a great group of people, including some of my favorite writers.
July 5-8, you can find me at CONvergence (http://www.convergence-con.org/, which is just as much fun as Fourth Street, but with a very differentfocus. I was one of their Guests of Honor last year, and this year I will be enjoying a slate of Wonder Women
GOHs. CONvergence celebrates SF/F and geekery in all different modes and mediums in a wonderfully energetic manner, with some of the best parties around.
Finally, WorldCon (Chicon 7) one of the biggest shindigs in SF/F, will be held this year in Chicago on Labor Day weekend (https://chicon.org/). This is the big one. Jason Sizemore (the intrepid publisher of this lovely magazine) and I will finally get to meet in person. Oh, and then we get to attend the Hugo Award Ceremony, where we will learn our fate as a nominated semiprozine.
It’s going to be a busy summer.
In the meantime, I hope you enjoy this issue of Apex Magazine.
Lynne M. Thomas
Editor-in-Chief
Winter Scheming
Brit Mandelo
On her way out of the coffee shop, Harvey flashed a last flirtatious grin at the blonde barista behind the counter. The girl lifted her hand in a wave, smiling, before the door shut between them. A surge of warmth rolled down to Harvey's toes. Being out of her apartment made such a difference; it was as if she'd come back to life. She trotted down the steps into the sunny winter's day, and as she lifted the cup to her mouth, she noticed a scrap of paper tucked into its cardboard sleeve.
She plucked free the wrinkled bit of receipt tape. The word Lucinda stared up at her in smudged blue ink, followed by a phone number. Harvey glanced up through the window and caught another glance of the barista's lustrous hair.
Lucinda,
she murmured. The syllables were sweet and slippery on her tongue.
The warmth returned, and it had nothing to do with the sip of rich coffee she took to soothe her prickling nerves. She hadn't gone out with the intention of finding a date but she couldn't ignore such a pretty girl. It had been months since—the summer. She tucked the paper into her back pocket with sweat-damp fingers. The daytime crowd milled by unaware.
They moved around and without her, like a stream around a boulder, rushing and noisy, a sudden immense pressure on every side. A sick chill washed over her; the ground tilted. She'd spent too long cooped up alone to deal with so many people all at once. She pressed her back against the wall of the building and lifted her gaze from the street. The sky was crisp, bright blue with wispy clouds, soothing and simple. The vertigo faded by degrees, but then a flash of color, gold-brown like wet blonde hair, swirled at the corner of her eye. Her breath hurtled to a stop in her chest. She turned sharply, slopping hot coffee over her sleeve.
It was a tawny owl, balanced on a street