Welcome to Apparition Literary Magazine! Issue 26: Mercurial contains stories and poems that twist logic and subvert expectations. They will toss you into space, lead you through time and virtual realities, guide you into cavorting with tricksters and old gods, but eventually lead you back home.
Short Fiction
The Sun Never Sets in Our Country by Abhishek Sengupta, 3400 words, ~17 minutes reading time
Darnsworth Products by RSL, 4600 words, ~23 minutes reading time
The Other Sky by Heather Child, 1500 words, ~7 minutes reading time
In the Loams of Hope by Gabrielle Gosha, 2900 words, ~14 minutes reading time
Poetry
fox games by Emily Y. Teng, 41 lines
A Record of My Emperor After the Elixir of Life by Arda Mori, 54 lines
Anticaprice / Chemical Engineering Mage by Bogi Takács, 55 lines
Hoppers, the Wisest Frog in Space by Seth Wade, 14 lines
by Marina Cooper, 54 lines
Non-Fiction
Mercurial As Your Skin by Moriam E. Kuye, 1500 words, ~7 minutes reading time
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.
Welcome to Apparition Literary Magazine! Issue 26: Mercurial contains stories and poems that twist logic and subvert expectations. They will toss you into space, lead you through time and virtual realities, guide you into cavorting with tricksters and old gods, but eventually lead you back home.
Short Fiction
The Sun Never Sets in Our Country by Abhishek Sengupta, 3400 words, ~17 minutes reading time
Darnsworth Products by RSL, 4600 words, ~23 minutes reading time
The Other Sky by Heather Child, 1500 words, ~7 minutes reading time
In the Loams of Hope by Gabrielle Gosha, 2900 words, ~14 minutes reading time
Poetry
fox games by Emily Y. Teng, 41 lines
A Record of My Emperor After the Elixir of Life by Arda Mori, 54 lines
Anticaprice / Chemical Engineering Mage by Bogi Takács, 55 lines
Hoppers, the Wisest Frog in Space by Seth Wade, 14 lines
by Marina Cooper, 54 lines
Non-Fiction
Mercurial As Your Skin by Moriam E. Kuye, 1500 words, ~7 minutes reading time
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.