Apex Magazine is a science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction. EDITORIAL Words from the Editor-in-Chief - Jason Sizemore SHORT FICTION The Chariots, the Horsemen - Stephanie Malia Morris When You're Ready - M. Ian Bell Kerouac's Renascence - Tal M. Klein All Clear - Hao He The Whipping Girls - Damien Angelica Walters NONFICTION Interview with Stephanie Malia Morris - Andrea Johnson Interview with Cover Artist Kim Myatt - Russell Dickerson Undead: The Making of a Poetry Anthology - Katerina Stoykova Nexhuman: From Origin to Translation: The Long Path from Italy to the US - Francesco Verso Five Things to Remember When Running a Writer's Convention - Kelly Swails and Melanie R. Meadors COLUMNS Between the Lines with Laura Zats and Erik Hane Page Advice with Mallory O'Meara and Brea Grant POETRY the undead - Allison Thorpe Ghost Ships - Amy MacLennan