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    Apex Magazine Issue 18
    Apex Magazine Issue 18
    Apex Magazine Issue 18
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    Apex Magazine Issue 18

    By Catherynne M. Valente

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    Apex Magazine is an online digital zine of genre short fiction.

    FICTION
    The Green Book by Amal El-Mohtar
    50 Fatwas for the Virtuous Vampire by Pamela K. Taylor
    The Faithful Soldier, Prompted by Saladin Ahmed
    Kamer-taj, the Moon-horse from Forty-Four Turkish Fairy Tales collected by Dr. Ignácz Kúnos, 1913

    POETRY
    Me and Rumi’s Ghost by Samer Rabadi
    Tur Disaala by Jawad Elhusuni
    Al Manara Dirge by Sara Saab

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherApex Book Company
    Release dateOct 27, 2010
    ISBN9781458127174
    Apex Magazine Issue 18
    Author

    Catherynne M. Valente

    Catherynne M. Valente began September’s adventures in installments on the Web; the project won legions of fans and also the CultureGeek Best Web Fiction of the Decade award. She lives with her husband on an island off the coast of Maine. She has written many novels for adults, but this is her children’s book debut.

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      Apex Magazine Issue 18 - Catherynne M. Valente

      Apex Magazine

      Apex Magazine

      Issue 18

      Amal El-Mohtar Saladin Ahmed Pamela K. Taylor Dr. Ignácz Kúnos Samer Rabadi Jawad Elhusuni Sara Saab

      Edited by

      Catherynne M. Valente

      Apex Publications

      Contents

      The Green Book

      Amal El-Mohtar

      50 Fatwas for the Virtuous Vampire

      Pamela K. Taylor

      The Faithful Soldier, Prompted

      Saladin Ahmed

      Kamer-taj, the Moon-horse

      from Forty-four Turkish Fairy Tales collected by Dr. Ignácz Kúnos

      Me and Rumi’s Ghost

      Samer Rabadi

      Tur Disaala

      Jawa Elhusuni

      Al Manara Dirge

      Sara Saab

      The Green Book

      2,600 Words

      Amal El-Mohtar

      Amal El-Mohtar is a Canadian-born child of the Mediterranean, currently pursuing a PhD in English literature at the Cornwall campus of the University of Exeter. She is the author of The Honey Month, a collection of poetry and prose written to the taste of 28 different kinds of honey, and the winner of the 2009 Rhysling Award for Best Short Poem. Her work has appeared in many print and online venues, including Weird Tales, Strange Horizons, Stone Telling, Ideomancer, and Mythic Delirium. She also co-edits Goblin Fruit, an online quarterly dedicated to fantastical poetry, with Jessica P. Wick. Find her online at Voices on the Midnight Air.

      MS. Orre. 1013A Miscellany of materials copied from within Master Leuwin Orrerel’s ( d. Lady Year 673, Bright Be the Edges) library by Dominic Merrowin ( d. Lady Year 673, Bright Be the Edges). Contains Acts I and II of Aster’s The Golden Boy’s Last Ship , Act III scene I of The Rose Petal , and the entirety of The Blasted Oak . Incomplete copy of item titled only THE GREEN BOOK, authorship multiple and uncertain. Notable for extensive personal note by Merrowin, intended as correspondence with unknown recipient, detailing evidence of personal connection between Orrerel and the Sisterhood of Knives. Many leaves regrettably lost, especially within text of THE GREEN BOOK: evidence of discussion of Lady Year religious and occult philosophies, traditions in the musical education of second daughters, and complex reception of Aster’s poetry, all decayed beyond recovery. Markers placed at sites of likely omission.

      My dear friend,

      I am copying this out while I can. Leuwin is away, has left me in charge of the library. He has been doing that more and more, lately–errands for the Sisterhood, he says, but I know it’s mostly his own mad research. Now I know why.

      His mind is disturbed. Twelve years of teaching me, and he never once denied me the reading of any book, but this–this thing has hold of him, I am certain plays with him. I thought it was his journal, at first; he used to write in it so often, closet himself with it for hours, and it seemed to bring him joy. Now I feel there is something fell and chanty about it, and beg your opinion of the whole, that we may work together to Leuwin’s salvation.

      The book I am copying out is small–only four inches by five. It is a vivid green, quite exactly the color of sunlight through the oak leaves in the arbor, and just as mottled; its cover is pulp wrapped in paper, and its pages are thick with needle-thorn and something that smells of thyme.

      There are six different hands in evidence. The first, the invocation, is archaic: large block letters with hardly any ornamentation. I place it during Journey Year 200-250, Long Did It Wind, and it is written almost in green paste: I observe a grainy texture to the letters, though I dare not touch them. Sometimes the green of them is obscured by rust-brown stains that I suppose to be blood, given the circumstances that produced the second hand.

      The second hand is modern, as are the rest, though they vary significantly from each other.

      The second hand shows evidence of fluency, practice, and ease in writing, though the context was no doubt grim. It is written in heavy charcoal, and is much faded, but still legible.

      The third hand is a child’s uncertain wobbling, where the letters are large and uneven; it

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