Apex Magazine is an online digital zine of genre short fiction. EDITORIAL Blood on Vellum by Lynne M. Thomas FICTION Becca at the End of the World by Shira Lipkin Grey in the Gauge of His Storm by Damien Angelica Walters An Assault of Color by Mari Ness Shatter by Kelly McCullough NONFICTION A Hammer with an Edge: Swords in Fantasy Literature by Douglas Hulick First Intermission: The Day the Movies Came Knocking at My Door or 'I'm Ready for My Close-up, Mr. DeMille!' by Gary A. Braunbeck INTERVIEW Interview with Kelly McCullough by Lynne M. Thomas