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 FICTION On the Day You Spend Forever with Your Dog — Adam R. Shannon Girls Who Do Not Drown — A.C. Buchanan Captain Midrise — Jim Marino The Man Who Has Been Killing Kittens — Dee Warrick NONFICTION Interview with Author Adam R. Shannon — Andrea Johnson Interview with Cover Artist Ronnie Jensen — Russell Dickerson The Princess and the Quest — Alethea Kontis Young, Gifted, and Black: My First Gen Con Experience — Isabella Faidley