Apex Magazine Issue 104

Apex Magazine is a science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction.Double issue special!EDITORIALWords from the Editor-in-Chief—Jason SizemoreFICTIONAsylum of Cuckoos — Lila BowenTo Blight a Fig Tree Before It Bears Fruit — Benjamín Naka-Hasebe KingsleyA Night Out at a Nice Place — Nick MamatasThe Heaven-Moving Way — Chi HuiSymphony to a city under the stars — Armando SaldañaThe Ghost Stories We Tell Around Photon Fires — Cassandra KhawThe Best Friend We Never Had — Nisi ShawlOrigin Story — T. KingfisherNONFICTIONInterview with Lila Bowen (Delilah S. Dawson) — Andrea JohnsonInterview with Cover Artist Daniele Serra — Russel DickersonOrrin Evans: The Pioneer of Black Comic Book Publishing — Shawn PryorFear of Failure 2.0 — Damien Angelica WaltersPOETRYTreebound — Mary Soon LeeMonster: Puppeteer — Mary Soon Leethe saddest of angels — Jeremy PadenCOLUMNSBetween the Lines with Laura Zats and Erik HanePage Advice with Mallory O'Meara and Brea Grant