Apex Magazine is a science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction. EDITORIAL Words from the Editor-in-Chief — Jason Sizemore SHORT FICTION The Chariots, the Horsemen — Stephanie Malia Morris When You're Ready — M. Ian Bell Kerouac's Renascence — Tal M. Klein All Clear — Hao He The Whipping Girls — Damien Angelica Walters NONFICTION Interview with Stephanie Malia Morris — Andrea Johnson Interview with Cover Artist Kim Myatt — Russell Dickerson Undead: The Making of a Poetry Anthology — Katerina Stoykova Nexhuman: From Origin to Translation: The Long Path from Italy to the US — Francesco Verso Five Things to Remember When Running a Writer's Convention — Kelly Swails and Melanie R. Meadors COLUMNS Between the Lines with Laura Zats and Erik Hane Page Advice with Mallory O'Meara and Brea Grant POETRY the undead — Allison Thorpe Ghost Ships — Amy MacLennan