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. 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