Apex Magazine Issue 6
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59 Beads by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz
Overclocking by James L. Sutter
All the Wonder in the World by Lavie Tidhar
NONFICTION
Interview with BJ Burrow by Whitney Mims
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Apex Magazine Issue 6 - Apex Book Company
Apex Magazine Issue 6
October 2009
Rochita Loenen-Ruiz James L. Sutter Lavie Tidhar
Apex Publications
59 Beads
Copyright © 2009 by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz
Overclocking
Copyright © 2009 by James L. Sutter
All the Wonder in the World
Copyright © 2009 by Lavie Tidhar
Interview with BJ Burrow
Copyright © 2009 by Whitney Mims
Cover artwork by Stefan Keller
Publisher/Editor-in-Chief—Jason Sizemore
Senior Editor—Gill Ainsworth
Graphic Designer—Justin Stewart
ISSN: 2157-1406
Apex Publications
PO Box 24323
Lexington, KY 40524
Contents
59 Beads
Rochita Loenen-Ruiz
Overclocking
James L. Sutter
All the Wonder in the World
Lavie Tidhar
Interview with BJ Burrow
Whitney Mims
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59 Beads
Rochita Loenen-Ruiz
Rochita Loenen-Ruiz is a Filipina writer living in The Netherlands. A graduate of the Clarion West Writing Workshop and recipient of the Octavia Butler Scholarship for 2009, her work has appeared in a variety of online and print publications including Weird Tales, Fantasy Magazine, The Philippine Speculative Fiction anthology and the upcoming Ruin and Resolve anthology. Visit her online at rcloenen-ruiz.livejournal.com.
Air limousines floated by like ghosts in a night filled with a jangle of sounds. A mad juxtaposition of chords, wailing voices and crooned-out tunes mangled by the sound of honking horns, curses and the cries of the desperate filled the dark streets. Cordoba’s End, home to migrants and refugees.
After their parents succumbed to the rot, Pyn and Sienna wandered the streets of Cordoba. Together, they trekked the back side of the posh quarter. Ecstasy street, Ilona’s Oord, Sonatina’s Point, the words tasted as exotic and beautiful as the places themselves.
You think we’ll ever be rich enough to live on High End?
Sienna asked.
I don’t know,
Pyn said.
We could join one of the lotteries and win a prize,
Sienna said. I’d wear a long white dress and violets. We could go to the fair, and I would push a trundle cart with my dolly in it.
Pyn snorted.
You ever heard of anyone from Cordoba’s End winning a lottery?
Pyn asked.
She pretended not to hear Sienna’s sniff, pretended not to see the tears trickling down her young sister’s cheeks.
Come on, Sien. Time to go.
It wasn’t fair, Pyn often thought. It wasn’t fair of Mama to die and leave Pyn to take care of her younger sister. Mama should have stayed alive; instead, she’d chosen to yield to the rot. Pyn didn’t mind scrounging for herself, but it hurt her to see the bloom on Sienna’s cheeks give way to grey gray haggardness that made her look older than her ten years.
* * * *
Summer brought searing heat. Dust and flies abounded, and Sienna’s skin broke out in sores that heralded the onset of rot.
It must have been something I ate,
Sienna said with a wan smile.
Pyn nodded, but