Apex Magazine: Issue 32
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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:
"So Glad We Had This Time Together" by Cat Rambo
"Sweetheart Showdown" by Sarah Dalton
Classic Revisited:
"The Prowl" by Gregory Frost
Nonfiction:
"Editorial: Blood on Vellum" by Lynne M. Thomas
"Writing About Rape" by Jim C. Hines
"Interview with Gregory Frost" by Maggie Slater
Cover art by Stephen Segal
Apex Magazine is edited by Hugo Award-winning editor Lynne M. Thomas.
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Apex Magazine - Lynne M. Thomas
Apex Magazine
Issue 32
January, 2012
Smashwords Edition
COPYRIGHTS & ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Blood on Vellum: Notes from the Editor
Copyright 2012 by Lynne M. Thomas
So Glad We Had This Time Together
Copyright 2012 by Cat Rambo
Sweetheart Showdown
Copyright 2012 by Sarah Dalton
The Prowl
Copyright 2003 by Gregory Frost (Mojo: Conjure Stories by Nalo Hopkinson, 2003)
Writing About Rape
Copyright 2012 by Jim C. Hines
Interview with Gregory Frost
Copyright 2012 by Maggie Slater
Publisher—Jason Sizemore
Editor-in-Chief—Lynne M. Thomas
Senior Editor—Gill Ainsworth
Submission Editors—Zakarya , Patrick Tomlinson, Zakaraya Anwar, Deanna Knippling, Sarah E. Olson, Olga Zelenova, George Galuschak, Sigrid Ellis, Michael Damian Thomas, Andy Arnold, Travis Knight, Michael Matheson, Eileen Maksym, and Kelly Lagor.
ISSN: 2157-1406
Apex Publications
PO Box 24323
Lexington, KY 40524
Cover art design copyright by Stephen Segal
Design Artist Bio
Stephen H. Segal is an award-winning writer, editor, and publication designer based in Philadelphia. His new book, GEEK WISDOM: The Sacred Teachings of Nerd Culture, debuted in August 2011 courtesy of Quirk Books.
As editorial & creative director of Weird Tales from 2006 to 2010, he led the 21st-century revamping and reinvigoration of the classic American fantastic-literature magazine. In 2009, Tales won the prestigious Hugo Award—the magazine’s first such honor in its long history.
Segal’s current projects include freelance book editing and design; serving as senior contributing designer to the World Fantasy Award-winning publisher Prime Books; and development of a new cross-media storytelling venue. He also recently developed two remarkable works of fiction to be published by Quirk in January 2012: Jason Heller’s speculative political satire, Taft 2012, and Theodora Goss’s unique, accordion-bound double novella, The Thorn and the Blossom: A Two-Sided Love Story.
Table of Contents
Fiction
"So Glad We Had This Time Together"
Cat Rambo
"Sweetheart Showdown"
Sarah Dalton
"The Prowl"
Gregory Frost
Nonfiction
Writing About Rape
Jim C. Hines
Blood on Vellum: Notes from the Editor
Lynne M. Thomas
Interview
Interview with Gregory Frost
Maggie Slater
Blood on Vellum: Notes from the Apex Editor
Goodbye, 2011. You were full of adventures through mystical labyrinths, virtual worlds, asteroid belts, massive cities, and intimate gardens. Shira Lipkin, Heather McDougal, Amal El-Mohtar, Lavie Tidhar, Indaprimit Das, Rabbit Seagraves, Eugie Foster, Annalee Newitz, Mike Allen, Forrest Aguirre, Saladin Ahmed, Elizabeth Bear, and outgoing editor Catherynne M. Valente all graced our pages (among many talented others).
And now it’s a new year with a new editor and more new stories. We’re beginning 2012 with new stories from Cat Rambo and Sarah Dalton, which I think is an auspicious start.
Cat Rambo’s So Glad We Had This Time Together
takes on the horrors of reality television. Sarah Dalton’s Sweethearts Showdown
features a quirky, modified beauty queen bloodbowl. Our classic revisited this month comes from the 2003 anthology Mojo: Conjure Stories, Nalo Hopkinson. Gregory Frost’s The Prowl
tells a chilling historical tale of a palatyi on a slave ship that is not always completely malevolent.
This month’s nonfiction includes an interview with Gregory Frost by Maggie Slater, and an article by Jim C. Hines, a fantasy author and former rape counselor, who gives us the do’s and don’ts of including rape as a story-plot point.
I hope that you enjoy the January issue of Apex. I’m looking forward to seeing where Apex takes us next.
Lynne M. Thomas
Editor-In-Chief, Apex Magazine
apex.lynne@gmail.com
So Glad We Had This Time Together
By Cat Rambo
JB: I’m submitting my resignation, effective immediately.
I can hear the distant hum of the building’s heart, the slow steps of a janitor cleaning its chambers with wafts of pine and ammonia, strong and harsh. I’ll track him down and kill him when I finish. Leave a message scrawled in scarlet under one of the pastel landscapes adorning the belly of a corridor.
Years ago, when I was an intern, I loved coming into the office late at night. After I was done answering e-mail or polishing a PowerPoint presentation, I’d roll a chair up to the window and lean my forehead against the glass, relishing the coolness. Looking out across the avenues of streetlights, I’d wonder who else was awake and watching the night. I’d look at my reflection, backlit by neon, and see a skinny white woman, dressed for success in navy blue with a touch of red, and starting to climb the career ladder of professional television. Then I’d go drink a triple latte before heading to the gym.
I’m writing this in my office at 3 a.m. It’s a rainy autumn night, warm and wet, and sideways slashes of raindrops mark the window, but I don’t try to see my reflection in it. I just keep typing.
It’s been a pleasure working with you, and I thank you for the advice and assistance you’ve given me.
From my earliest days, a career in television was all I'd ever wanted. Two working parents left me to be raised by the airwaves, from the moment I got home from school to when I unrolled the plastic wrap from my microwaved dinner with its gust of steam. Letterman’s cadences swayed me to sleep every night. The television was family. There was a local variety show host I loved; he’d smile at the camera and thank me, the viewer, for inviting him into my fine home, and then he’d introduce the friends that had come with him, the new friends I’d meet that night.
There had to be a better place to start. Perhaps with gratitude.
Thank you for selecting me to act as a co-producer of Unreality TV. I know we created quality television there, of which we can all be proud.
When Kurt first proposed the idea, I