Welcome to Apparition Literary's Contamination issue, this vessel is teeming with tasty body horror, a variety of Gods trapped in familial conflict, complicated webs of acceptance, love, and growth, generational trauma laid out in verse, and perseverance of story in a time when reality kept us all isolated.
EDITORIAL
A Word from our Editor by Aigner Loren Wilson
SHORT FICTION
Mushroom Head by Marla Bingcang— 2900 words, 10 minutes reading time
I Wear My Spiders in Remembrance of Myself by Kel Coleman — 4600 words, 18 minutes reading time
The Godmaker's Cure by December Cuccaro — 3500 words, 11 minutes reading time
She Dreams in Bronze by Sylvia Ho — 4500 words, 18 minutes reading time
POETRY
Inextricable by Venne Hrzaan— 26 lines
träumerei by Ewen Ma— 33 lines
ESSAY
When We Lost Touch by H.E. Casson
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