Apex Magazine Issue 115

Apex Magazine #115

by Jason Sizemore (editor), Adam R. Shannon, Andi C. Buchanan

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. New issues are released on the first Tuesday of every month.

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

Genres: Short Stories, Time Travel

100 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 1, 2018

About the author

I was born the son of an unemployed coal miner in a tiny Kentucky Appalachian villa named Big Creek (population 400). It’s an isolated area with beautiful rolling hills, thick forests, and country folk. I lived in Big Creek until I went to college, spending my weekends cruising the Winn Dixie parking lot of ladies, partying in my cousin’s run-down three room trailer, and being a member of the bad-ass Clay County High School Academic Team.

College was quite a shock for me. Girls! Minorities! Strip clubs! And it didn’t help that I attended Transylvania University, a fairly snotty (but excellent) private college in Lexington, KY (on scholarship… no way my family could have sent me otherwise). I graduated in the standard four years with a degree in Computer Science.

Since 1996, I’ve worked for evil corporations (IBM), dot com dreamers (eCampus.com), The Man (both city and state government), and for The Kids (KY Dept. of Education), and assholes (lots and lots of assholes).

In 2004, I decided my life was boring, that I no longer needed disposable income, and I needed to increase my stress levels. I started Apex Publications, a small press publisher of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. At first it was just a small print zine, then a pro-level online zine, then books, and then ebooks.

I edit anthologies, mostly for Apex (because I’m a control freak). I occasionally do copy editing (when pressed) and have done plenty of acquisition editing over the years.

I also write. I don’t really write enough to leave a mark, but it seems to go well when I do put pen to paper.

Miscellaneous facts about me: left-handed, blue eyes, super geeky, hillbilly accent, near-sighted, and typically in a goofy mood.

Also, and most importantly, I’m not the drunkard all those Facebook photos makes me out to be. It just happens that cameras are always around when I… have libations. Honest!

Reviews

[Jess]

"On the Day You Spend Forever With Your Dog," by Adam R. Shannon

[Alex Sarll]

On one level, a story about a very limited form of time travel, recalling Nietzsche's eternal recurrence by way of Einstein and Alan Moore's understanding of time as solid but relived. But more than that, a story about how death is rubbish, and dogs are far better than we deserve.

[Soph Barker · Rating 4 out of 5]

Advertencia: la perrita muere. Conmovedora y tierna, representa maravillosamente el miedo de todo aquel que quiere a sus mascotas a no estar a la altura del amor que nos transmiten. Cuidado con leerla en público, las lágrimas están al caer.

[Elaysee · Rating 4 out of 5]

A really enjoyable issue. The pair of essays on the con-going experience was a nice touch. I particularly liked Jim Marino's "Captain Midrise," a superhero story variant that opens "The thing that broke your heart was, he could still fly."

[rixx · Rating 2 out of 5]

[On the Day You Spend Forever with your Dog](https://www.apex-magazine.com/on-the-...) is a short story that tries to roll heart-breaking dog love and (emotional) time travel into one, but fell flat for me.

[Michael Whiteman · Rating 4 out of 5]

On The Day You Spend Forever With Your Dog - Adam R Shannon ****

Girls Who Do Not Drown - AC Buchanan ***

Captain Midrise - Jim Marino ****

The Man Who Has Been Killing Kittens - Dee Warrick ****

[Derek · Rating 4 out of 5]

Painful.

Wonderful.