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 CONTENTSFICTION:Beatification of the Second Fall — Sean RobinsonSilver Buttons All Down His Back — AC WiseCrow — Octavia CadeWind — Naomi KritzerSlow — Lia Swope MitchellThis Thing of Darkness — Yzabel Ginsberg (eBook/Subscriber exclusive)NONFICTION:Words from the Editor-in-Chief — Jason SizemoreInterview with AC Wise — Andrea JohnsonInterview with Cover Artist Adrian Borda— Russell DickersonClavis Aurea: A Review of Short Fiction — Charlotte AshleyNever Enough Farmers! Class and Writing Fantasy Novels — Jennie GoloboyPOETRY:The Multiple Lives of Juan and Pedro — Isabel Yapthere must be a surefire way to separate the ravens from the crows— Keith S. WilsonCover art by Adrian Borda.