Apex Magazine is a monthly science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction. EDITORIAL Words from the Editor-in-Chief—Jason Sizemore FICTION My Struggle — Lavie Tidhar So Sings the Siren — Annie Neugebauer Penelope Waits — Dennis Danvers The Case of the Mysterious Meat — Kate Ingram Tree of the Forest Seven Bells Runs the World Round Midnight — Sheree Renée Thomas Haven, Kansas (Novel Excerpt) by Alethea Kontis NONFICTION Interview with Dennis Danvers — Andrea Johnson 8-Bit Rage, Black Hole Zion, Industrial Music, and Science Fiction — Ed Grabianowski Interview with Cover Artist Rubén Castro — Russel Dickerson