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    Apex Magazine: Issue 25
    Apex Magazine: Issue 25
    Apex Magazine: Issue 25
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    Apex Magazine: Issue 25

    By Catherynne M. Valente

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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.

    This issue features the following content:

    Short Fiction:
    "Your Cities" - Anaea Lay
    "The Doves of Hartleigh Garden" - Kathryn Weaver (first professional sale!)
    "Valentines" - Shira Lipkin
    "CUE: Change" - Chesya Burke

    Poetry:
    "Clockwork Chickens" - Seanan McGuire

    Apex Magazine is edited by award-winning author and editor Catherynne M. Valente.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherApex Book Company
    Release dateJun 5, 2011
    ISBN9781458066978
    Apex Magazine: Issue 25
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    Catherynne M. Valente

    Catherynne M. Valente is an acclaimed New York Times bestselling creator of over forty works of fantasy and science fiction, including the Fairyland novels and The Glass Town Game. She has been nominated for the Nebula and World Fantasy awards, and has won the Otherwise (formerly Tiptree), Hugo, and Andre Norton award. She lives on a small island off the coast of Maine with her partner, young son, and a shockingly large cat with most excellent tufts.

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      Apex Magazine - Catherynne M. Valente

      APEX MAGAZINE

      Issue 25

      June, 2011

      Copyright 2011 Apex Publications

      Smashwords Edition

      COPYRIGHTS & ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      Your Cities Copyright 2011 by Anaea Lay

      The Doves of Hartleigh Garden Copyright 2011 by Kathryn Weaver

      Clockwork Chickens Copyright 2011 by Seanan McGuire

      Valentines Copyright 2009 by Shira Lipkin

      CUE: Change Copyright 2011 by Chesya Burke

      Publisher—Jason Sizemore

      Fiction Editor—Catherynne M. Valente

      Senior Editor—Gill Ainsworth

      Submission Editors—Zakarya Anwar, Ferrett Steinmetz, Martel Sardina, Chris Einhaus, Mari Adkins, George Galuschak, Deanna Knippling, Sarah Olson, Lillian Cohen-Moore, Patrick Tomlinson, Katherine Khorey

      Proofreader—Olga Zelenova

      Cover Artist—Melissa Gay

      Cover designed by Justin Stewart

      ISSN: 2157-1406

      Apex Publications

      PO Box 24323

      Lexington, KY 40524

      Please visit us at http://www.apexbookcompany.com/apex-online

      To subscribe visit http://www.apexbookcompany.com/apex-online/subscribe/

      Submission Guidelines are listed at the end of the issue.

      Table of Contents

      Your Cities

      Anaea Lay

      The Doves of Hartleigh Garden

      Kathryn Weaver

      Clockwork Chickens

      Seanan McGuire

      Valentines

      Shira Lipkin

      Cue: Change

      Chesya Burke

      Submission Guidelines

      Your Cities

      Anaea Lay

      I was thinking of you. It was late and the lights in the bar were set low, creating the cozy, private feeling that you always found so depressing in those sorts of places. They're my sort of place now, but there was nothing private about the mass of people pressing on me as we stared in awe at the big television screens.

      The bridges are gone, collapsed at the same moment. The reporter gasped. There's no sign of an explosion. Authorities won't answer questions about what happened. They were showing the same footage again. And again. The Brooklyn bridge crunched at the middle as if giant hands pressed either end together, then collapsing, crashing into the water below, taking who knows how many people down with it. The Holland tunnel was uprooted and submerged. New York was completely cut off from its suburbs on Long Island and in New Jersey. It had to be a bizarre natural disaster or a brilliantly executed terrorist plot or...something.

      It's like the city just shrugged, somebody whispered. He spoke to the television, but it sent shivers through everybody who heard him.

      That's when I thought of you.

      Chicago was next, a year later. It was one of those foggy days when the air is so thick and close that the buildings disappear inside of it. On that day the ground rumbled and the air was filled with the sounds of steel sliding over glass, of concrete creaking over rebar. The city shook with the sounds of building after building around the city prostrating itself to the Sears Tower. They bowed before it, the King of the skyscrapers, and suddenly everybody knew.

      They didn't have footage of it to play over and over like they did with New York, but they had experts. Whether they knew anything or not, the experts talked. The one I remembered most sounded a little like you. There are precedents of course. Atlantis is the obvious one, but I think the tower of Babel probably references a real event that's been garbled over time. The experts speculated about what made the cities wake up, about how the ritual obeisance could have been coordinated, about anything and everything but the one obvious question, the one you'd never answer for me: If they're waking up, what does that mean for us?

      You're still gone, vanished with New Orleans, but I know you're out there. They're still creeping toward consciousness, so you must be.

      New Orleans was the first city to wake up, but it took them years to figure that out. It was so much smaller than the others, its skyline so much less impressive. But you'd always said that buildings were the side effects of cities, that their souls didn't need skyscrapers to grow and dream and whisper their passions to you. New Orleans had an old soul, pieces of Paris and Marseilles glued together with fragments of Barcelona and bits of Africa, thrown into the world and forced to find its own place. So you chose it as the first.

      The weathermen started talking about Hurricane Catherine changing course, and still you went. She grew bigger and angrier while I begged you to stay, but you couldn't be stopped. They nicknamed her Katrina II, but you laughed at me as you climbed into your car and set off.

      I've tried to picture it ever since, you strolling into a city anybody with any sense had long since fled. You whistled; I'm sure you whistled. But then what? Did you crawl into the city's bed and stroke its shoulder, nibbling on its ear and whispering tidings of morning, the way you would for me? Did you wrap your arms around it and speak of love and sex and waffles, coaxing it past the foggy stages of fresh wakening and into the warmth of your voice? Did you even think of me as you made love to the city, mother, midwife and lover all in one? I picture it, but I don't want to know.

      Whatever you did, it wasn't enough. Or it was too much. New Orleans woke in the middle of the worst cyclonic storm on the Atlantic since they've kept records. It trembled and shook, as if convulsed with shrieks of, Not again! and threw itself into the ocean, taking you and every other poor soul trapped there with it. Katrina II, Hurricane's Revenge.

      The waking must

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