Apparition Lit, Issue 14

Issue 14: Chance issue holds guaranteed adventure including; love and a ghostly gun, a firey marriage arranged on a knife's edge, swampy sibling revenge entanglements, keeping a promise in spite of dystopian trauma, and poems reflecting on the hard value of childish collateral and the steps to a possible future.
EDITORIAL
A Word from our Editor by Premee Mohamed
SHORT FICTION
The Swamp Exchange by Laura Barker —2600 words, 13 minutes reading time
Watcher, Worker by Rona Fernandez — 5400 words, 27 minutes reading time
Bride, Knife, Flaming Horse by M. L. Krishnan — 4700 words, 23 minutes reading time
Queen Minnie's Last Ride by Aimee Ogden — 4300 words, 21 minutes reading time
POETRY
Bought and Sold // Trader by Ellen Huang —29 lines
Fifteen Steps by Marisca Pichette — 27 lines
ESSAY
Ripples of Love by Marguerite Croft
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.