Apex Magazine is a monthly science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction. EDITORIAL Words from the Editor-in-Chief-Jason Sizemore FICTION My Struggle - Lavie Tidhar So Sings the Siren - Annie Neugebauer Penelope Waits - Dennis Danvers The Case of the Mysterious Meat - Kate Ingram Tree of the Forest Seven Bells Runs the World Round Midnight - Sheree Renée Thomas Haven, Kansas (Novel Excerpt) by Alethea Kontis NONFICTION Interview with Dennis Danvers - Andrea Johnson 8-Bit Rage, Black Hole Zion, Industrial Music, and Science Fiction - Ed Grabianowski Interview with Cover Artist Rubén Castro - Russel Dickerson