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

"silksong::onechild" 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.