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    Apex Magazine: Issue 43
    Apex Magazine: Issue 43
    Apex Magazine: Issue 43
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    Apex Magazine: Issue 43

    By Lynne M. Thomas

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    About this ebook

    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.

    We are a 2012 Hugo Award nominee for Best Semiprozine!

    Issue 43 features the following content:

    Table of Contents
    Fiction
    "Blood from Stone" by Alethea Kontis
    "Labyrinth" by Mari Ness
    "Relic" by Jeffrey Ford

    Nonfiction
    "Blood on Vellum: Notes from the Editor-in-Chief" by Lynne M. Thomas
    "You’re Not Supposed to Write That: Taboos in Speculative Fiction" by Vylar Kaftan
    "An Interview with Alethea Kontis” by Maggie Slater

    Cover art by Aunia Kahn

    Edited by multi-Hugo Award-winning editor Lynne M. Thomas

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherApex Book Company
    Release dateDec 4, 2012
    ISBN9781301024124
    Apex Magazine: Issue 43

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      Apex Magazine - Lynne M. Thomas

      APEX MAGAZINE

      ISSUE 43

      EDITED BY LYNNE M. THOMAS

      SMASHWORDS EDITION

      Copyrights and Acknowledgements

      Blood on Vellum: Notes from the Editor-in-Chief Copyright © 2012 by Lynne M. Thomas

      Blood from Stone Copyright © 2012 by Alethea Kontis

      Labyrinth Copyright © 2012 by Mari Ness

      Relic Copyright © 2011 by Jeffrey Ford (Originally appeared in The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities: Exhibits, Oddities, Images, and Stories from Top Authors and Artists edited by Jeff VanderMeer and Ann VanderMeer, Harper Voyage, 2011)

      You’re Not Supposed to Write That: Taboos in Speculative Fiction Copyright © 2012 by Vylar Kaftan

      An Interview with Alethea Kontis Copyright © 2012 by Maggie Slater

      Publisher—Jason Sizemore

      Editor-in-Chief—Lynne M. Thomas

      Senior Editor—Gill Ainsworth

      Managing Editor—Michael D. Thomas

      Slush Editors—Sigrid Ellis, Deanna Knippling, Kelly Lagor, Eileen Maksym, Michael Matheson, Travis Knight, Olga Zelanova, Maggie Slater, Andy Arnold, Fran Wilde, Jei D. Marcade

      Graphic Designer—Justin Stewart

      ISSN: 2157-1406

      Apex Publications

      PO Box 24323

      Lexington, KY 40524

      About Our Cover Artist

      Born on December 5th, 1977 in Michigan, Aunia Kahn is a self taught figurative artist who began creating art as a therapeutic response to a difficult upbringing. Kahn’s works combines many disciplines, wrapping them into a hybrid art form melding photography, painting and collage. She invariably designs, builds, and executes characters, non-existent places, dreams, illusions, fears and fables into creation, which meld elements of classical and contemporary art. Each work makes use of her own likeness in movie-like stills, dealing in varied taboo and often controversial subject matter to challenge the viewer, their understanding and preconceived notions; yet she connects through honest feeling and emotions. Aunia’s work has constantly evolved, earlier works dealt more with her past, while her more recent creations delve into present emotional conflicts and inspirations.

      She is also the creator of the Silver Era Tarot deck, Inspirations for Survivors deck, Lowbrow Tarot Project, the forthcoming Tarot Under Oath, and Water Spirit Tarot, the author of Obvious Remote Chaos, Minding the Sea: Inviting the Muses Over for Tea, and a graphic/web designer. She currently resides in Illinois with her four German Shepherds and black cat in her secret closet.

      Apex hopes you visit Aunia’s website at http://www.auniakahn.com/ to view more of her amazing work.

      Table of Contents

      Blood on Vellum: Notes from the Editor-in-Chief

      Lynne M. Thomas

      Blood from Stone

      Alethea Kontis

      Labyrinth

      Mari Ness

      Relic

      Jeffrey Ford

      You’re Not Supposed to Write That: Taboos in Speculative Fiction

      Vylar Kaftan

      An Interview with Alethea Kontis

      Maggie Slater

      Dark Faith: Invocations

      Edited by Maurice Broaddus and Jerry Gordon

      Featuring

      Jeffrey Ford, Max Allan Collins, Mike Resnick, Jay Lake, Nisi Shawl, Laird Barron, Tom Piccirilli, Jennifer Pelland, and more!

      Religion, science, magic, love, family—everyone believes in something, and that faith pulls us through the darkness and the light. The second coming of Dark Faith cries from the depths with 26 stories of sacrifice and redemption.

      "…rises to the expectations set by Maurice Broaddus and Jerry Gordon’s first (Dark Faith) anthology, if not surpassing them."

      —Dark Wolf Fantasy Reviews

      ISBN: 978-1-937009-07-6

      Available at ApexBookCompany.com or most major book vendors

      Blood on Vellum: Notes from the Editor-in-Chief

      Welcome to Issue 43 of Apex Magazine.

      We have some wonderful fiction for you this month. Both Alethea Kontis’s Blood from Stone and Mari Ness’s Labyrinth are dark tales of sacrifice. Blood from Stone takes an evil romantic relationship to extremes, while Labyrinth twists motherly love into a danse macabre. Our classic revisited comes from Jeffrey Ford. Relic examines religion and faith from the point of view of an isolated celebrant with a dark past.

      In nonfiction, Vylar Kaftan takes on the notion of taboo in science fiction and fantasy, and Maggie Slater interviews Alethea Kontis.

      This month’s gorgeous cover art comes from Aunia Kahn.

      Our 2012 subscriber drive was, once again, a success. I’d especially like to thank Lesley Conner, who coordinated the subscription drive and organized giving away the epic amounts of swag that we use to thank our subscribers. If you are a new or renewing subscriber, thank you. Your support pays our contributors! If this is your first issue, welcome! Everyone on Team Apex is glad that you’re here. (If you like what you see, be sure to tell a friend.)

      Speaking of Team Apex, as we are in the last issue of the year, I’d like to take a moment to thank all of the people who make Apex Magazine possible. Our submissions editors, our copy editor, our managing editor, our publisher, and everyone else that you see on the masthead go above and beyond every single month to make Apex Magazine look good. I could not be more proud of the work that we do together. Thank you. It’s been an amazing year.

      Lynne M. Thomas

      Editor-in-Chief

      Blood from Stone

      Alethea Kontis

      He had no idea that I loved him. He barely acknowledged that I existed, a maid twice over, little more than a shadow in empty hallways. Trapped in unhappy marriage and prisoner in his own castle, he did not conceive that anyone loving him was even possible. The baron was a man of war, not of love.

      He was also an ass, but as Maman said, so many men are.

      He’d borne arms with Jeanne d’Arc in Orléans, had witnessed firsthand the divine power she had wielded. Sorceress, they’d called her. Maman had shared a similar fate, for far less a magical offense.

      The baron was so much more deserving of that power. If there existed a man with more confidence, more passion about things beyond the realms of heaven and earth, I never knew of him. Prelati was a pompous, hand-waving fool in comparison.

      After testing the limits of his seemingly boundless wealth and ultimately finding it, the baron surrounded himself with books and candles and crucifixes in his barren estate, refusing to believe that divine voices could only be heard by the ears of unspoiled females. Yes, it was Prelati who suggested that he was imploring the wrong deity, but it was I who sent him the first child.

      Perhaps those among the fallen might better relate to the sons of Adam.

      Prelati’s silver-tongued accent echoed through the chimney from which I swept the ashes. The charlatan must have been standing directly in front

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