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. This month Sheree Renée Thomas guest-edits a special Zodiac themed issue! EDITORIAL Under Ancient Stars, New Dreams Are Born--Sheree Renée Thomas FICTION For Southern Girls When the Zodiac Ain't Near Enough--Eden Royce Prism--Stefanie Elrick La Ciguapa, For the Reeds, For Herself--J.M. Guzman Gasping--Brandon O'Brien Jewel of the Vashwa--Jordan Kurella The Barnum Effect--Celia Neri POETRY How to Paint Mercury--Mary Soon Lee Capricorn--Tara Betts How to Fly by Neptune--Mary Soon Lee Celestial Mary (Galilean Daughter)--Sherese Francis How to Speak to Pluto--Mary Soon Lee A Theorized Form of Matter--Ashely Adams NONFICTION 'There's No Racism Here?' A Black Woman in the Dominican Republic--Kiini Ibura Salaam COLUMNS Page Advice--Mallory O'Meara and Brea Grant Between the Lines with the Print Run Podcast--Laura Zats and Erik Hane INTERVIEWS Interview with Author Eden Royce--Andrea Johnson Interview with Cover Artist Stacey Robinson--Russell Dickerson