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    Apex Magazine Issue 6
    Apex Magazine Issue 6
    Apex Magazine Issue 6
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    Apex Magazine Issue 6

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    Apex Magazine is an online digital zine of genre short fiction.

    FICTION
    59 Beads by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz
    Overclocking by James L. Sutter
    All the Wonder in the World by Lavie Tidhar

    NONFICTION
    Interview with BJ Burrow by Whitney Mims

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherApex Book Company
    Release dateNov 22, 2010
    ISBN9781458068934
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      Apex Magazine Issue 6 - Apex Book Company

      Apex Magazine Issue 6

      October 2009

      Rochita Loenen-Ruiz James L. Sutter Lavie Tidhar

      Apex Publications

      59 Beads Copyright © 2009 by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz

      Overclocking Copyright © 2009 by James L. Sutter

      All the Wonder in the World Copyright © 2009 by Lavie Tidhar

      Interview with BJ Burrow Copyright © 2009 by Whitney Mims

      Cover artwork by Stefan Keller

      Publisher/Editor-in-Chief—Jason Sizemore

      Senior Editor—Gill Ainsworth

      Graphic Designer—Justin Stewart

      ISSN: 2157-1406

      Apex Publications

      PO Box 24323

      Lexington, KY 40524

      Contents

      59 Beads

      Rochita Loenen-Ruiz

      Overclocking

      James L. Sutter

      All the Wonder in the World

      Lavie Tidhar

      Interview with BJ Burrow

      Whitney Mims

      The Apex Book of World SF Ad

      59 Beads

      Rochita Loenen-Ruiz

      Rochita Loenen-Ruiz is a Filipina writer living in The Netherlands. A graduate of the Clarion West Writing Workshop and recipient of the Octavia Butler Scholarship for 2009, her work has appeared in a variety of online and print publications including Weird Tales, Fantasy Magazine, The Philippine Speculative Fiction anthology and the upcoming Ruin and Resolve anthology. Visit her online at rcloenen-ruiz.livejournal.com.

      Air limousines floated by like ghosts in a night filled with a jangle of sounds. A mad juxtaposition of chords, wailing voices and crooned-out tunes mangled by the sound of honking horns, curses and the cries of the desperate filled the dark streets. Cordoba’s End, home to migrants and refugees.

      After their parents succumbed to the rot, Pyn and Sienna wandered the streets of Cordoba. Together, they trekked the back side of the posh quarter. Ecstasy street, Ilona’s Oord, Sonatina’s Point, the words tasted as exotic and beautiful as the places themselves.

      You think we’ll ever be rich enough to live on High End? Sienna asked.

      I don’t know, Pyn said.

      We could join one of the lotteries and win a prize, Sienna said. I’d wear a long white dress and violets. We could go to the fair, and I would push a trundle cart with my dolly in it.

      Pyn snorted.

      You ever heard of anyone from Cordoba’s End winning a lottery? Pyn asked.

      She pretended not to hear Sienna’s sniff, pretended not to see the tears trickling down her young sister’s cheeks.

      Come on, Sien. Time to go.

      It wasn’t fair, Pyn often thought. It wasn’t fair of Mama to die and leave Pyn to take care of her younger sister. Mama should have stayed alive; instead, she’d chosen to yield to the rot. Pyn didn’t mind scrounging for herself, but it hurt her to see the bloom on Sienna’s cheeks give way to grey gray haggardness that made her look older than her ten years.

      * * * *

      Summer brought searing heat. Dust and flies abounded, and Sienna’s skin broke out in sores that heralded the onset of rot.

      It must have been something I ate, Sienna said with a wan smile.

      Pyn nodded, but

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