Issue 73: 1st Quarter 2020
EDITORIAL
“Help Wanted” by Wendy S. Delmater
FICTION
“A Planet With a Lake” by Derek Nason
“The Valley of the Speaking Flames” by B. Pladek
“Where a Good Town May Take Us” by Andi C. Buchanan
“ Scans” by Mike Adamson
“My Magic, My Spell” by Mary E. Lowd
FLASH FICTION
“Lot No. #024: Intergalactic Death Ray” by Nemma Wollenfang
POETRY EDITORIAL and SPECIAL HOLIDAY POEM
“Introduction to Abyss & Apex Poetry Issue 73” by John C, Mannone
“It’s not Always Magic” by John C. Mannone
POETRY
“Returning to Dead Places” by Tristan Beiter
“Celestial Mechanics” by Karin L. Frank
“Off the Side of the 101” by Jordan Carley (removed at author’s request)
“A Touch of Lightning in the Soul” by Deborah L. Davitt
“Necessary Parts” by Laura Cranehill
“Raster” by A.Z. Louise
“On the Edge” by Katharyn Howd Machan
“Endless moment” by Matthew Harrison
SMALL PRESS BOOK REVIEWS
The Artifacts: A Flint Hills Story by Eric Reynolds
The Black Queen by J. Kathleen Cheney
Mystery!: The Origins Game Fair 2018 Anthology Edited by Chantelle Aimée Osman
Glorious Madness: Short Fiction by Jude-Marie Green
Netwalk: Expanded Edition by Joyce Reynolds Ward
Within the Summit’s Shadow by Bonnie Randall
Issue 74: 2nd Quarter 2020
EDITORIAL
“Online This Time” by Wendy S. Delmater
FICTION
“The Eyes of Hemshat” by K. D. Julicher
“A Life On Air” by D. A. D’Amico
“Like Vines” by Alicia Power
“May Nothing But Happiness Come Through Your Door” by Robert Bagnall
“A Greater Good” by Laura O’Brien
FLASH FICTION
“Sunset Coda” by Patrick Hurley
POETRY EDITORIAL
“Introduction to Abyss & Apex Poetry Issue 74” by John C. Mannone
POETRY
“The Wood Became Birds” by Tristan Beiter
“Three Bad Dreams” by Kevin Denelsbeck
“In Pluto’s Embrace” by Deborah Davitt
“To the Underworld” by Dawn Vogel
“Diamond Dust” by Christina Sng
“Prisms” by Stephanie Smith
“Under the Boards” by Misha Penton
“Cargo Cult” by Marc Ruvolo
SMALL PRESS BOOK REVIEWS
The Sideman (John Simon book 2) by Bryan Thomas Schmidt
The Hunchback’s Captive and Others: Stories and Poems of the Darkly Fantastic by Jay Sturner
Across the Universe: Tales of Alternative Beatles edited by Michael A. Ventrella and Randee Dawn
Issue 75: 3rd Quarter 2020
EDITORIAL
“Couped Up” by Wendy S. Delmater
FICTION
“The Bringer’s Duty” by Heather Pagano
“Relic” by Gunnar De Winter
“The Coming End” by Bryan Thomas Schmidt and Jonathan Miller
“Scales and Fire” by Jeff Soesbe
“Future Imperfect” by Desmond Warzel
FLASH FICTION
“Five Reasons for the Sign Above her Door, One of Them Unspoken” by Izzy Wasserstein
POETRY EDITORIAL
“Introduction to Abyss & Apex Poetry Issue 75” by John C. Mannone
POETRY
“And It Was Bad” by Anne Carly Abad
“Old Playfellow” by Noel Sloboda
“three days on battey street” by Maria Zoccola
“After the War” by Helga Kidder
“Runaway” by Jacqueline West
“Surfacing” by Tiffany Morris
“A Planet’s Complaint” by Lauren McBride
“The Distance” by Cat Dixon
“First Contact” by Ken Poyner
SMALL PRESS BOOK REVIEWS
Shift by C.N. LesleyP » STRONG » A
Common Source by Bryan Thomas Schmidt
Goddess Rising by Jay Hartlove
Issue 76: 4th Quarter 2020
EDITORIAL
“Distance Learning & Sci Fi ” by Wendy S. Delmater
FICTION
“Natural Selection” by Lindsey Duncan
“Russian Rhapsody” by Forrest Brazeal
“To Pieces, Slowly” by Megan Branning
“What Rhythms in Your Body Have Changed?” by Sarah Pauling
“Factory Girl” by Derrick Boden
FLASH FICTION
“Escape by Other Means” by Peter Hargraves
POETRY EDITORIAL
“Introduction to Abyss & Apex Poetry Issue 76” by John C. Mannone
POETRY
“That is not what I meant at all” by Brian Hugenbruch,
“*” by Simon Perchik
“Executive” by Phoebe Low
“Dark Matter Haunts Us” by Ann K. Schwader
“Flying” by David C. Kopaska-Merkel
“Those who leave” by M.C. Childs
“Villa Abbandonata” by Jennifer Crow
“People Dropping Dead in the Mall Parking Lot” by Alan Ray Simmons
“Excerpt from The Explorers Guild Essential Handbook: Librarian’s Edition” by Rebecca Buchanan
“After I reach the end of a fairy tale” by Margaret Kingsbury
SMALL PRESS BOOK REVIEWS
Forgotten Sidekicks Edited by Peter Sutton and Steven Poore
Here, There Be Monsters by John L. French
Dead Star by Simon Kewin
Special Holiday Story
Ransom and the Christmas Tree by Robert Runté
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Art Director: Bonnie Brunish
