Apex Magazine: Issue 29
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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.
Table of Contents
Fiction:
“I Am Thinking of You in the Places Between”
Shira Lipkin
“To the Mistress of the Labyrinth Give Honey”
Heather McDougal
“A Life in Fictions”
Kat Howard
Poetry:
“Hot Wet Mess"
SJ Tucker
“In Search of North Countrie"
Amal El-Mohtar
Nonfiction:
Interview with R.A. Salvatore by Stephanie Jacob
This issue of Apex Magazine was edited by NYT Bestselling author Catherynne M. Valente.
Catherynne M. Valente
Catherynne M. Valente began September’s adventures in installments on the Web; the project won legions of fans and also the CultureGeek Best Web Fiction of the Decade award. She lives with her husband on an island off the coast of Maine. She has written many novels for adults, but this is her children’s book debut.
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Apex Magazine - Catherynne M. Valente
Apex Magazine
Issue 29
October, 2012
Smashwords Edition
COPYRIGHTS & ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I Am Thinking of You in the Places Between
Copyright 2011 by Shira Lipkin
To the Mistress of the Labyrinth Give Honey
Copyright 2011 by Heather McDougal
A Life in Fictions
by Kat Howard, Copyright 2010 (Stories, William Morrow 2010)
Hot Wet Mess
Copyright 2011 by SJ Tucker
In Search of a North Countrie
Copyright 2011 by Amal El-Mohtar (Imagination Fully Dilated, Vol. II (IFD Publishing, 2002))
Publisher—Jason Sizemore
Fiction Editor—Catherynne M. Valente
Senior Editor—Gill Ainsworth
Submission Editors—Zakarya Anwar, Ferrett Steinmetz, Mari Adkins, George Galuschak, Deanna Knippling, Sarah Olson, Lillian Cohen-Moore, Katherine Khorey, Olga Zelanova, Patrick Tomlinson
Cover design by Justin Stewart
ISSN: 2157-1406
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Table of Contents
Fiction
I Am Thinking of You in the Spaces Between
Shira Lipkin
To the Mistress of the Labyrinth Give Honey
Heather McDougal
A Life in Fictions
Kat Howard
Poetry
Hot Wet Mess
SJ Tucker
In Search of a North Countrie
Amal El-Mohtar
Nonfiction
Interview with R.A. Salvatore by Stephanie Jacobs
I Am Thinking of You in the Spaces Between
By Shira Lipkin
The notebook is on your nightstand, and it's all that's left of her in the thin morning light. It's tattered—old blue cloth-covered thing, white cardboard showing through at the edges and corners. Looks like it's ridden in her pocket for some time. You hesitate only briefly before opening it—probably private, yes, but maybe she left her address or phone number written in the front cover. You only got her name. Not any of her contact info. And you want to see her again. Never had a connection quite like that. Never brought a stranger home.
You open the book. You see your name.
I am thinking of you in the spaces between. Like always. Ever have been. Ever will be.
You don't know me, but I know you. Or another version of you.
We met in this bar back home. You didn't recognize me. That was a relief. All life long I've had cameras pointed at me—when I launch, when I return, when I go to the supermarket. But you had no idea who I was. That's why I started talking to you in the first place. That's why I went home with you.
(This isn't the you I know. I know that. Forgive me talking about our life together, a life you've never had. I have to get this out, and you're all I've got to give it to.)
You'd heard of the accident, of course. Everyone had. How the first passenger transport to use a Between gate didn't come out exactly right. How fourteen of us survived—but changed. How we now have the ability to walk between worlds. Not a simple folding of spacetime, like the Between engine was designed for. But actually walking into the between, walking straight into another universe.
I was twelve. I