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    Apex Magazine Issue 11
    Apex Magazine Issue 11
    Apex Magazine Issue 11
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    Apex Magazine Issue 11

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    Apex Magazine is an online zine of genre short fiction.

    SHORT FICTION
    “Dying with Her Cheerpants On” by Seanan McGuire
    “Seafoam” by Mark Henry
    "Snipe Hunting" by Jennifer Brozek

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherApex Book Company
    Release dateSep 15, 2016
    ISBN9781370910014
    Apex Magazine Issue 11

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      Apex Magazine Issue 11 - Apex Book Company

      Apex Magazine Issue 11

      Seanan McGuire Mark Henry Jennifer Brozek

      Apex Publications

      Dying with Her Cheer Pants On Copyright © 2010 by Seanan McGuire

      Seafoam Copyright © 2010 by Mark Henry

      Snipe Hunting Copyright © 2010 by Jennifer Brozek

      Cover art 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

      Dying with Her Cheer Pants On

      Seanan McGuire

      Seafoam

      Mark Henry

      Snipe Hunting

      Jennifer Brozek

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      Dying with Her Cheer Pants On

      Seanan McGuire

      Seanan McGuire was born and largely raised in Northern California, which explains her love of rattlesnakes and deep fear of weather. (California doesn’t have weather. California has climate.) Seanan is often described as a vortex of the surreal, and many of her personal anecdotes end with things like and then we got the anti-venom or but it’s okay, because it turned out the water wasn’t all that deep.

      Seanan’s first novel, Rosemary and Rue, was published by DAW Books in 2009. The sequel, A Local Habitation, followed in 2010, with three more already on the way. Because this wasn’t time-consuming enough, Seanan also decided to masquerade as her own evil twin, Mira Grant, author of the Newsflesh Trilogy (published by Orbit/Orbit UK). Mira’s first book, Feed, will be coming out in May 2010. Neither Seanan nor Mira sleeps much.

      Bridget ducked behind the remains of a burned-out Impala, crouching low as the zap-zap-zap of blaster fire split the October night. The sound was already familiar enough to turn her stomach. Not just because it meant another survivor had been spotted—because there was nothing she could do to help whoever it was. She huddled against the wheel, making herself as small as possible. She didn’t think she’d been seen. She’d know for sure in a few minutes, when the patrol reached her position. There was nothing to do but wait.

      It was still hard to believe that aliens were real, not just science-fiction bullshit for the geeks in the computer club to obsess over. Maybe they’d been science-fiction bullshit once, but not anymore. This was real. Some guy on CNN had called them blasters when the aliens first landed, before anybody had a clue how destructive their quaint-looking little ray guns really were. He’d laughed when he said it.

      That was sixteen hours ago, nine hours before the start of the homecoming game, and eleven hours before the game’s untimely end. Nobody was laughing now, least of all Bridget, who’d been chosen for the unenviable duty of leaving the safety of the gym and crossing the ruins of town to get what Amy was saying the squad would need.

      (They’d all put their names into the sacred gym bag, and when Maddy—who was Squad Leader, even though there was barely any squad left—pulled out Bridget’s name, she couldn’t argue. The gym bag’s word was law.)

      She wished she’d been allowed to stay in uniform. She

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