Welcome to Apparition Literary Magazine. Issue 25: Blight contains stories and poems pulsing with the hunger of the undead, bleak beauty that grows wild after everything else is destroyed, the intimacy of succumbing to fungal connection, and the existential exhaustion of a quiet rebellion against centuries of capitalistic claims on the soul.

Short Fiction

Bringing Down The Neighborhood by Bernard McGhee - 4100 words, ~20 minutes reading time

Everything, Nothing At All, and All That's In Between by Rebecca E. Treasure - 3600 words , ~18 minutes reading time

The City and the Styrofoam Sea by Mar Vincent - 4300 words , ~21 minutes reading time

The Plague Collector by Tom Okafor - 2700 words, ~13 minutes reading time

A Proper Vessel, A Perfect House by Ash Huang - 3400 words, ~17 minutes reading time

Poetry

In the Urban Darkness, Something by Jessica Peter, 35 lines

Silt and Soot by Gretchen Tessmer, 38 lines

Collective Cryo Dream by Casey Aimer, 34 lines

Moonflower by Sara Omer, 43 lines

Non-Fiction

Let There Be Blight by A.J. Van Belle

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, October.