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    Apex Magazine: Issue 22
    Apex Magazine: Issue 22
    Apex Magazine: Issue 22
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    Apex Magazine: Issue 22

    By Catherynne M. Valente

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    Apex Magazine is a monthly science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction from many of the top pros of the field. New issues are released on the first Tuesday of every month.

    Fiction:
    "The Dust and the Red" by Darin Bradley
    "The Speaking Bone" by Kat Howard
    "Rats" by Veronica Schanoe

    Poetry:
    "Quest" by Jessica Wick
    "The King of Cats, the Queen of Wolves" by Mike Allen, Sonya Taaffe, and Nicole Kornher-Stace

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherApex Book Company
    Release dateSep 16, 2016
    ISBN9781370532193
    Apex Magazine: Issue 22
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    Catherynne M. Valente

    Catherynne M. Valente is an acclaimed New York Times bestselling creator of over forty works of fantasy and science fiction, including the Fairyland novels and The Glass Town Game. She has been nominated for the Nebula and World Fantasy awards, and has won the Otherwise (formerly Tiptree), Hugo, and Andre Norton award. She lives on a small island off the coast of Maine with her partner, young son, and a shockingly large cat with most excellent tufts.

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      Apex Magazine - Catherynne M. Valente

      APEX MAGAZINE

      Issue 22

      Edited by Catherynne M. Valente

      Smashwords Edition

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      FICTION

      The Dust and the Red

      Darin Bradley

      The Speaking Bone

      Kat Howard

      Rats

      Veronica Schanoes

      POETRY

      Quest

      Jessica P. Wick

      The King of Cats, the Queen of Wolves

      Mike Allen, Sonay Taaffe, and Nicole Kornher-Stace

      THE DUST AND THE RED

      Darin Bradley

      I was ten the first time I saw the pearl. The soil had come loose in the Sweetgrass, and to protect the family, my father dug the pearl out of its niche beneath the jamb. He had to clean it, and, since we only had one room, he had no choice but to show us. Taking it outside would have defeated the purpose. Where the dust lived. Where the problems were.

      The plains were fast upon us, though I didn’t know it then. Only father knew. That’s why he extracted the pearl from its rusted tobacco tin By protecting it, he was protecting us.

      He buffed it slowly, evenly, so it would hold mother’s paraffin against the dust.

      There was no other way.

      Jonah was fourteen, and he watched our father. He watched the pearl.

      Father looked at me. Come closer, Caroline, he said.

      # # #

      The tax man was sweating beneath his layers. He wore so many, in blacks: vests, jackets, a hat with curled rims. The landowners came in blacks, and so did the preacher and the lawyers. Black was an invasion. An outfit of shadows for coming inside. Black car, black book, black ink in the pen. Jonah and I stood against the wall, watching mother watching father. I didn’t know then that we had the pearl. Jonah had fire in his eyes. He was staring at father, staring at the tax man.

      The two men sat very still at our small table. The smell of the morning’s pork hung in the air. The stove hadn’t quite heated mother’s washing water.

      It’s the stock exchange, the tax man said.

      Father nodded slowly.

      Too many sales, the tax man said. Nothing left to trade. The tax man bit off the ends of his words as he spoke. Saving bits for later, maybe. Between him and my father, they tried to disturb the air as little as possible.

      The tax man glanced again at his black book. Father’s fingers were resting on its spine where the tax man had settled it in front of him. It was still closed.

      Father nodded again.

      Sign the ledger, the tax man said. Might not matter. Country’s gone broke. He looked out the window.

      Loosened the dust, father said, out on the plains.

      Most like, the tax man said. Nothing left of the war-cropping to keep that soil down. Too much, too fast. No time for rotation.

      Father nodded. His blond beard glistened where the light found it, oiled by sweat and sunshine. He’d been at the fields when the tax man came--when mother sent Jonah out to collect him, and the tax man stood and sweated outside our front door.

      Father’s beard looked like the wheat, nodding its secret conversations with the wind and the soil. Nodding that it knew something. Father knew something. He knew what was coming.

      Might need another war, then, he said. Another demand.

      Might so.

      Father signed the tax man’s ledger. He licked the pen just like it was a pencil and scribbled his name into the black

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