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Apparition Literary Magazine is a quarterly speculative fiction magazine that features short stories and poetry. We’re excited to provide you with original short stories and poetry from Apparition Lit’s digital issues. 

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January 2024 - Issue 25: BLIGHT

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EDITORIAL

Blight Editorial – Brandon O’Brien

SHORT FICTION

Everything, Nothing At All, and All That’s In Between by Rebecca Treasure
A Proper Vessel, A Perfect House by Ash Huang
The City and the Styrofoam Sea by Mar Vincent
Bringing Down The Neighborhood by Bernard McGhee
The Plague Collector by Tom Okafor

POEMS

Silt and Soot by Gretchen Tessmer
Moonflower by Sara Omer
Collective Cryo Dream by Casey Aimer
In the Urban Darkness, Something by Jessica Peter

ESSAYS

Let There Be Blight by A.J. Van Belle

Banner and Issue 25 Cover art by Annalise Jensen

October 2023 - Issue 24: RECLAMATION

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EDITORIAL

Reclamation Editorial by Ai Jiang

SHORT FICTION

Vessels and Warnings by Gabrielle Emem Harry

An Unraveling by K.S. Walker

Crabgrass in October by Elena Sichrovsky

Hunt by A.D. Sui

POEMS

footprints, fruit trees by Crystal Sidell

Language as a Form of Breath by Angel Leal

Bulrush Ritual by Charlie Espinosa

Thread Remedy by Tara Campbell

ESSAYS

How Can You Reclaim What You Never Had? An Essay by Tehnuka

Banner and Issue 24 Cover art by Edith Silva

July 2023 - Issue 23: CREATURE

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EDITORIAL

Creature Editorial by Wen-yi Lee

SHORT FICTION

Unit Six: Intro to Manticores by Louis Inglis Hall
Lupus In Fabula by Briar Ripley Page
The Fall of Esther Park by Lynn D. Jung
The Greenhorn by Taylor Rae

POEMS

Love and Strife by Frank Podmore
the thing that leaps by Elis Montgomery
The Nigerian Nightmare by Chinedu Gospel
kan-da-ka by Nadaa Hussein

ESSAYS

How to Become a Creature by Premee Mohamed

Creatures Big and Small Under the Desert Sun – Edith Silva’s Creature Cover Art-icle by Maria Schrater

Banner and Issue 23 Cover art by Edith Silva

April 2023 - Issue 22: SYMMETRY

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EDITORIAL

Symmetry Editorial by Kel Coleman

SHORT FICTION

Through the Glass, a Full Sea by P.H. Low

The Sea Hare by Wailana Kalama

Paper Teeth by Mare Knaupp

A Catalog of Gifts from a Crow by Jo Miles

POEMS

Helen After Helen by Rasha Abdulhadi

I, Hunger by Nnadi Samuel

Invertebrate Gazebo by Angela Acosta

Marriage by Yee Heng Yeh

ESSAYS

Symmetry, Horror & Identity by Tania Chen

I Know Too Much About Scurvy – Edith Silva’s Symmetry Cover Art-icle by Maria Schrater

Banner and Issue 22 Cover art by Edith Silva

January 2023 - Issue 21: Dread

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EDITORIAL

Dread Editorial by Nelly Geraldine García-Rosas and Eugenia Triantafyllou

SHORT FICTION

Luis, the Last Time by Rachel Lastra

The Bones Are Hungry by Joshua Jones Lofflin

Oh Jackie by Wess Mongo Jolley

Soulbirds by Sylvia Heike

POEMS

The Marriages: The dybbuk by Gemma Cooper-Novack

Shut Mouths Sing Melodious by Tiffany Morris

CONSENT FOR FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION WITH THE SHELLEY CONCEPTS INC CUSTOM PATIENT-FITTED RECONSTRUCTION PROSTHESIS by Katie R. Yen

Ghostboy Kills Our Mother with Trauma by Olumide Manuel

2022 Issues

October 2022 - Issue 20: Nostalgia

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EDITORIAL

Nostalgia Editorial by Guest Editor Sabrina Vourvoulias

SHORT FICTION

The Hungry Tree by Auden Patrick
A, B, B, A by Russell Nichols
Solo le quedaron ocho (Then There Were Eight) Por elena félix
Wing/Flower by Endria Isa Richardson
Entre cráteres, nosotros Por Ana Hurtado

POEMS

Backward Compatibility (Quinceañera on a Generation Ship) by Katherine Quevedo
Icarus, and the Truths That Bore Him by Jessica Cho

ESSAYS

The Ghosts of Goodbyes by Marie Baca Villa
Erika Holice’s Nostalgia Cover Art by Rebecca Bennett

Banner and Issue 20 Cover art by Erika Hollice

 

July 2022 - Issue 19: Omen

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EDITORIAL

Omen Editorial by Guest Editor Kevin M. Casin

SHORT FICTION

Infinite Clay-Tablet Memories Sung Into the Flesh of the World by Ann LeBlanc
A Personal Apocalypse by Léon Othenin-Girard
Just One Death by Matt Richardson
Heart-Eater by Tania Chen

POEMS

What Use are Wings to a Creature of the Sea by Vanessa Jae
Apples in Hell by Marie E. Kopp

ESSAYS

Here There Be Dragons by Maria Schrater
Erika Holice’s Omen Cover Art by Rebecca Bennett

Banner and Issue 19 Cover art by Erika Hollice

April 2022 - Issue 18: Wanderlust

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EDITORIAL

Wanderlust Editorial by Guest Editor M.L. Krishnan

SHORT FICTION

The Grief Portal by Aun-Juli Riddle
Six Steps to Become a Saint by Avi Burton
A Spring Divine by Armaan Kapur
Hitchhiker by Lindz McLeod

POEMS

After Inventing Time Travel by Mary Soon Lee
While Alice Sleeps in Wonderland by Marisca Pichette

Issue 18 Cover art by Erika Hollice

January 2022 - Issue 17 - Charm

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EDITORIAL
Charm Editorial by Guest Editor Lauren Ring

SHORT FICTION
Tea and Owls by Teresa Milbrodt
Silver Bells by Jaime Marvin
The Goblins of South India by Naethan Pais
She Calls by Nelly Geraldine Garcia-Rosas

POEMS
Charm of Goldfinches by Crystal Sidell
Creek Bed Charms by Gretchen Tessmer

ESSAY
Creating Charm with Erika Hollice, Artist-In-Residence by Rebecca Bennett

Issue 17 Cover art by Erika Hollice

2021 Issues

October 2021 - Issue 16: Wonder

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EDITORIAL
Wonder Editorial by Guest Editor Maria Dong

SHORT FICTION
Cocoon by Atreyee Gupta
Feudal Superstition – Yiwen Bu
A Home for the Hungry Tide by Alexandra Singer
Lavender, Juniper, Gunpowder, Smoke by Alyson Grauer
Flock of Words and Wonder by Marie Croke

POEMS
Beefriend by May Chong
Stranger Organs by Shaoni C. White

INTERVIEW
Working on Wonder – Erion Makuo, Artist-In-Residence by Rebecca Bennett

ESSAY
A Deeply Rooted Wonder by Jessica Cho

 Issue 16 Cover art by Erion Makuo

July 2021 - Issue 15 - Contamination

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EDITORIAL

Contamination Editorial by Guest Editor Aigner Loren Wilson

SHORT FICTION

The Godmaker’s Cure by December Cuccaro
I Wear My Spiders in Remembrance of Myself by Kel Coleman
Mushroom Head by Marla Bingcang
She Dreams in Bronze by Sylvia Ho

POEMS

träumerei by Ewen Ma
Inextricable by Venne Hrzaan

 Issue 15 Cover art by Erion Makuo

April 2021 - Issue 14 - Chance

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EDITORIAL

Chance Editorial by Guest Editor Premee Mohamed

SHORT FICTION

Queen Minnie’s Last Ride by Aimee Ogden
Bride, Knife, Flaming Horse by M. L. Krishnan
Watcher, Worker by Rona Fernandez
The Swamp Exchange by Laura Barker

POEMS

Fifteen Steps by Marisca Pichette
Bought and Sold // Trader by Ellen Huang

INTERVIEW

Crafting Chance: Journey of Cover Artwork by Erion Makuo
– Rebecca Bennett

ESSAY

Ripples of Love by Marguerite Croft

Issue 14 Cover art by Erion Makuo

January 2021 - Issue 13 - Justice

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EDITORIAL
Prelude
Dear Susan by Guest Editor Laura Barker

SHORT FICTION
Commodities by Zebib K. A
Honey and Mneme by Marika Bailey
Shark Girls by Caroline Diorio
Redlands by Jay Harper
It’s Never Just a Necklace by Ashland East
With the Nectar Comes the Sting by Jennifer Hudak

POEMS
A Body and Its Hunger by Sarah Ramdawar
Mothers of the Disappeared by Tehnuka
On Brutal Wing by Brian Hugenbruch
Alecto Chats on Her Smoke Break by Elizabeth R. McClellan

INTERVIEW
Making Justice – Erion Makuo, Artist-In-Residence by Rebecca Bennett

ESSAY
Justice is a Gravity Lens By Sameem Siddiqui

 Issue 13 Cover art by Erion Makuo

2020 Issues

October 2020 - Issue 12 - Satisfaction

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EDITORIAL
Redemption Editorial by Guest Editor Tiffany Morris

POEMS
My Internal Advisor by Gabrielle Galchen
Dream Weaver by Blaize Kelly Strothers

STORIES
You Do What You’re Told by J.A.W. McCarthy
Sunrise, Sunrise, Sunrise by Lauren Ring
A Bird Always Wants More Mangoes by Maria Dong
The Gorgon’s Epitaphist by KT Bryski

ESSAY
Meandering Through Definitions of Satisfaction by Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga

INTERVIEW
Artist interview with Karina Serdyuk

July 2020 - Issue 11 - Redemption

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EDITORIAL
Redemption Editorial by Tacoma Tomilson

POEMS
Cursebody by May Chong
Posle Nas by Rosalie Morales Kearns

STORIES
Saying Sorry by Rebecca Fung
Once Upon a Night by Sam Muller
The Limits of Magic by Samantha Mills
The Truth of a Lie by Jeff Reynolds

ESSAY
You are the Dream and the Dreamer by Aurelius Raines II

INTERVIEW
Artist Interview with Erika Hollice

April 2020 - Issue 10 - Transfiguration

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EDITORIAL

Transfiguration Editorial by Tacoma Tomilson

SHORT FICTION
Possible Human Hearts by Lyndsie Manusos
The Bear Wife by Leah Bobet
The Order of Stolen Hearts by Xan van Rooyen
What the Water Gave Her by Avra Margariti

POEMS
Still by Rachel McKinley
All the Better by Jessica J. Horowitz

INTERVIEW
Artist Interview with Tijana Janovic by Rebecca Bennett

ESSAY
It’s Okay to Cry During a Pandemic by Amy Robinson

January 2020 - Issue 9 - Experimentation

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EDITORIAL
Editor’s Note on Experimentation by Tacoma Tomilson

SHORT FICTION
The Redoubtables by Premee Mohamed
Passavanti’s Fantasima by Julia August
One Song Ending by E.A. Petricone
You Can Check Out Any Time You Like by Rhonda Eikamp

POETRY
Motes and Morsels by Dawn Vogel
At the Bleeding Edge by Lisa Timpf

ARTIST INTERVIEW
Artist Interview with Kim Myatt

ESSAY
I’ll Try Anything Zero to Four Times by Clarke Doty

2019 Issues

October 2019 - Issue 8 - Euphoria

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EDITORIAL
A Word on the Euphoria Issue by Guest Editor Ezzy Languzzi

SHORT FICTION
Ilyas’ Egg by Sameem Siddiqui
An Account of the Defeat of Earth’s Conqueror by Adam Lee Weatherford
A Word for What We Have by Jennifer Hudak
A Gentler Sky by Amelia Sirina

POETRY
Belly of the Beast by Holly Lyn Walrath
Luna Rasa by Tiffany Morris

ARTIST INTERVIEW
Artist Interview with Abi Stevens

ESSAY
It’s Not a Big Thing by Amy Robinson

July 2019 - Issue 7 - Retribution

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EDITORIAL
A Word from our Editor by Clarke Doty

SHORT FICTION
Our Roots Devour by Lora Gray
Dead Meat by Maria Haskins
His Heart is the Haunted House by Aimee Ogden
The Wolf of Pendarvis by Genevieve Sinha

POETRY
Abeona, Goddess of Outward Journeys, pilots the interstellar ark by Nisa Malli
Sea Witch from the Deep by Ellen Huang

ARTIST INTERVIEW
Artist Interview with buboplague

ESSAY
Planting the Seed: From Now and Then to Beneath a Sugar Sky by Rebecca Bennett

April 2019 – Issue 6: Ambition

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EDITORIAL
The Ambition Editorial by Amy Robinson

SHORT FICTION
eLon-4 Breaks A Mirror by Aurelius Raines II
The Hermes VII by Donna J. W. Munro
Juliet Silver and the Sea of Prosperity by Wendy Nikel
Sasha’s Pattern, Sonia’s Edge by Katherine Quevedo

POETRY
The Muse Does Not Give a Fuck about Your Personal Safety by Jennifer Crow
Naiad by Cameryn Araduke

REPRINT
The Last from Premee Mohamed

ARTIST INTERVIEW
Q&A with cover artist Erion Makuo

ESSAY
It’s Cute How Hard You Try: Carol Danvers and Ambition by Tacoma Tomilson

April 2019 – Issue 5: Resistance

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EDITORIAL
Editor’s Note on Resistance by Tacoma Tomilson

SHORT FICTION
Grey Evergreen by Marlena Evans
Hearts Made Marble, Weapons Shaped From Bone by A.J. Fitzwater
In Silence, I’ll Sing by Laura O’Brien
Who Defies the Watcher by Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga

POETRY
For Dark Figures and the Long Way Home by Bria Strothers
Taking, Keeping by Jessica J. Horowitz

INTERVIEW
Artist Interview with Crystal Lipsey

ESSAY
How to Fight Bullies with Angry Poems! and Other Ways to Join the Resistance by Clarke Doty

2018 Issues

April 2018 – Issue 4: Diversion

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EDITORIAL
A Word from Our Editor by Rebecca Bennett

SHORT FICTION
The Honey Cure by Rob Francis
If You Require Assistance by Chloie Piveral
Roy Reschedules with Death by Karen Heslop
A Provenance of Hunger by Emma JeNeal Miller

POETRY
Station Rain by Erik Burdett
Sides of the Glass by John Grey

REPRINT
Flying with the Dead by Sabrina Vourvoulias

INTERVIEW
Artist Interview with Sharlyn Artieda

ESSAY
Not What This Is Really About by Amy Henry Robinson

April 2018 – Issue 3: Vision

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EDITORIAL
A Word from Our Editor by Clarke Doty

SHORT FICTION
The Lady of Light by Jason A. Zwiker
Phantasm by Magdi Hazaa
They Are Still Building It by C.S. Malerich
Visionary by Rhonda Eikamp
Where Dead Men Go to Dream by A.C. Wise

POETRY
Beasts of Late Winter by Casey Reinhardt
Virtuality by Lynne Sargent

ESSAY
The Horrors of the Unseen by Rebecca Bennett

INTERVIEW
Artist Interview: Honeycomb by Julie Dillon by Rebecca Bennett

 

April 2018 – Issue 2: Delusion

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EDITORIAL
A Word from Our Editor by Amy Robinson

SHORT FICTION
The Ice Tree by Sarena Ulibarri
Mirror, Mirror by M.P. Neal
Long Dry Waste by Laura DeHaan
Sea Shanties by Amelia Fisher

POETRY
don’t paint the devil on the wall by Amy Baskin
The Deniers by Matthew Harrison

ESSAY
The Shared Delusion of Dungeons & Dragons by Tacoma Tomilson

INTERVIEW
Artist Interview: Quiet Time with Luke Spooner by Rebecca Bennett

 

April 2018 – Issue 1: Apparition

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EDITORIAL
A Word from Our Editor by Tacoma Tomilson

SHORT FICTION
World Cry by Tara Williams
A Promise by Jennifer Hudak
The Jade Woman by Garrett Davis
Waiting for the Dawn by Anna Salonen
2611 by Cat Rambo

POETRY
Quickening by Shannon Connor Winward
Esprit d’escalier by May Chong

ESSAY
I See Dead People by Clarke Doty

INTERVIEW
Artist Interview with Kim Sokol by Rebecca Bennett