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(Modern Fantasy (India)) Little
Kalyani might be autistic, but no one in her village knows what that means. A
passing sage offers her a boon, but it’s not at all a cure.
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(Horror) Cassie uses the Sight to earn
a living, but visions only come to her in dreams, and some dreams aren’t meant
to be told.
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(Apocalypse) Space-time anomalies are
destroying the world. Some survivors live in “oases,” which are mostly
protected but other walk the road following a mysterious woman. Mallow
interviews a roadie to find out why.
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(Horror) Your life has been on hold
ever since you stopped at a diner 65 years ago, and you never stop wondering
what might have been.
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(Horror) Marilee dates a brilliant
plastic surgeon who might have murdered his ex-wife and has an unhealthy
interest in brains.
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(Modern Fantasy) Thanks to divine
inspiration, Elena creates paintings beyond anything normal mortals can do,
but her gift comes with a price, and she’s come to see it as a curse, not a
blessing.
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(Apocalypse) The world is ending, but
Kate and her daughter Mel survive by hiding in the basement during the day
eating peanut-butter-and-spider sandwiches.
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(Slipstream) Shelly’s grandma teaches
her how to deal with ghosts so she can continue the family ghost business.
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(Near-Future SF) Pau is sure that his
kidnappers want information about the secret project he’s working on, but why
don’t they ever ask him any questions?
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(Horror) In a remote part of Arkansas,
Victoria plans to celebrate her 100th birthday in style.
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(Horror) A city inspection in a week
creates a crisis for the small creatures who scurry around Mag’s house. They
think she’s their mother. She thinks they’re rats, when she thinks about them
at all.
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(Alternate History) Adolph Hitler, a
failing private investigator in London, tries to locate a relic alleged to be
the spear that pierced the side of Christ.
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(Modern Fantasy) Nagiko lives in Tokyo
and loves to explore her city. Her city loves her too and has plans for her.
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(Alien Abduction) Cindy’s boyfriend
says alien’s abducted him, but she’s sure he was with another woman. Up until
the aliens contact her too.
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(Contemporary Fantasy; Brit Williams)
Teenage Brit enjoys teaching little kids at a Seattle Experience Outreach
camp, even though she senses that something evil haunts the abandoned bunkers
up the hill.
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(Horror) Cloe is a black android built
to let white people act out their aggressions.
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(SF) Charlie’s one of the original
colonists on the Indian space colony, but he’s having trouble setting up a
display of his old artifacts from Earth.
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(Horror) A little girl accompanies her
mother to a performance by a “siren.” What does it really mean to suffer for
your art?
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(Time Manipulation) Lolonyo keeps
rewinding his initial meeting with Aliza, sure he can eventually make it
perfect.
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(Fantasy Horror) Bishop created Mary,
a living doll, and charges local men to see her perform. She resents doing
it, and she resents the way he keeps tinkering with her. But what can she do?
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(Slipstream) Is the Salisbury
Steakhouse serving meat from their petting zoo? Detective Mauve means to find
out.
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(Horror) There are always three
sisters. When one gets big, Father eats her, and Mother has a new baby. This
is the story of how that cycle ended.
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(Alternate Reality) The narrator wakes
up every day to an endless party in an infinite house that seems to have
replaced the whole world. She’d like to get out, but she can’t even remember
her own name.
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(SF) Viola seeks revenge against the
people who mistreated her mother in a rest home.
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(Horror) Gable is just a teenager when
her mother dies, but the old women expect her to take her place and do her
magic.
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(Dystopia) Josefina seeks the android
freedom fighter who raised her.
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(Fairy Tale) In which we learn that
there’s more than one way for a fisherman to find a selkie wife, and lots of
ways it can turn out.
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(Horror) Jackson partly revived an
ancient mummy to use in his carnival. The undead thing has an agenda too,
though.
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(Colony Ship) A woman on a colony ship
tries to save the life of her best friend.
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(Magical Realism) Hamete lives in
Borges’s “Library of Babel,” and his life changes forever when he follows a
rabbit into the depths.
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Tree of the Forest Seven Bells Turns the World Round
Midnight by Sheree Renée Thomas Time: 22m (ShortStory) Issue: Apex 101
(Horror) Wilder’s girlfriend wants him
to meet her mother. In the middle of the night, in the wetlands near the
Mississippi river.
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(SF Adventure) If Sarai and Khulan
can’t get the vaccine to Batbayer settlement, the whole colony may perish
from the plague.
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(Modern Fantasy (Russian)) Little
Marcus walks the Moscow Metro at Midnight looking for stray animals and lost
souls to heal. But he needs something too.
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(Dystopia) Thirteen-year-old Eudora
works on the Heap west of Sydney, where defective children of the upper class
are dumped. But she’s whole and wants a better deal.
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(SF Mystery) Jane wakes up in a
strange place. Did her professor drug her? And why is she suddenly 18 years
older?
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Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience
by Rebecca Roanhorse1 Time: 19m (ShortStory) Issue: Apex 99
(Near-Future SF) Jesse uses virtual
reality to give tourists a vision-quest experience. It’s demeaning, but it
pays the bills. Then a tourist turns up who wants a really authentic
experience.
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(SF Horror) Beautiful Reva makes a
forbidden visit to the God in the Pit to tell him he made a mistake choosing
her plain sister for his bride.
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Wednesday, January 3, 2018
2017 Apex Magazine
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