Apparition Lit, Issue 21: Dread (January 2023)

Welcome to Issue 21: Dread! In this Issue, your past is more than a footnote. Dread swoops in when you decide to continue holding on or letting go. Let the birds flock, dig for gold, haunt the walls, sign your life away and call for mother. More

Welcome to Issue 21: Dread! In this Issue, your past is more than a footnote. Dread swoops in when you decide to continue holding on or letting go. Let the birds flock, dig for gold, haunt the walls, sign your life away and call for mother.

EDITORIAL
A Certain Kind of Dread in Two (or more) Voices by Nelly Geraldine García-Rosas and Eugenia Triantafyllou

SHORT FICTION
Soulbirds by Sylvia Heike – 1100 words, ~6 minutes reading time
The Bones Are Hungry by Joshua Jones Lofflin – 2200 words, ~11 minutes reading time
Oh Jackie by Wess Mongo Jolley – 2900 words, ~15 minutes reading time
Luis, the Last Time by Rachel Lastra – 4200 words, ~21 minutes reading time

POETRY
The Marriages: The dybbuk by Gemma Cooper-Novack – 24 lines
Shut Mouths Sing Melodious by Tiffany Morris – 28 lines
CONSENT FOR FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION WITH THE SHELLEY CONCEPTS INC CUSTOM PATIENT-FITTED RECONSTRUCTION PROSTHESIS by Katie R. Yen – 63 lines
Ghostboy Kills Our Mother with Trauma by Olumide Manuel – 30 lines

ESSAYS
[inhale\exhale\inhale\exhale\inhale\exhale] by Jeané D. Ridges
Dread is Being Trapped in a Curiosity Shop by Your Terrible Sense of Direction by Maria Schrater

Apparition Lit is a quarterly speculative fiction magazine that features short stories and poetry. We publish original content with enough emotional heft to break a heart, with prose that’s as clear and delicious as broth.

New issues will be published each January, April, July and October