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Apex Book Company has published dark, boundary-pushing speculative fiction since 2005 — the stories readers describe as haunting, wrenching, and impossible to forget.

The cover of Apex Magazine Issue 154 features a digital painting of a woman with a golden halo, encircled by black birds in flight. The text highlights contributing authors and magazine information, with original fiction, flash fiction, and essays included.

Apex Magazine · Issue 154

Original fiction, essays & interviews

Dark, curious, heart-breaking — each issue showcases stories you won't find anywhere else.

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Author spotlight

Jaym Gates

Jaym Gates

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Jaym Gates is an editor, author, and designer. A technical editor by day, a collector of exciting (and expensive) new hobbies by night, she got her start in the SFF publishing world as an editor, working on anthologies such as War Stories, Strange California, Genius Loci, and tie-in anthologies for game properties. With a deep interest in strategy, propaganda, and futurism, she currently consults and writes for projects which draw heavily on science fiction for real world applications, including Strategy Strikes Back and Winning Westeros. She can be found online at jaymgates.com.

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