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    Apparition Lit, Issue 1: Apparition (January 2018)
    Apparition Lit, Issue 1: Apparition (January 2018)
    Apparition Lit, Issue 1: Apparition (January 2018)
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    Apparition Lit, Issue 1: Apparition (January 2018)

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    Welcome to Apparition Literary Magazine, Issue 1. As the first issue of our magazine, our theme is Apparition, which can mean a ghostly presence, the act of becoming visible, or the appearance of something strange or unexpected.

    EDITORIAL
    *A Word from Our Editor by Tacoma Tomilson
    SHORT FICTION
    *World Cry by Tara Williams
    *A Promise by Jennifer Hudak
    *The Jade Woman by Garrett Davis
    *Waiting for the Dawn by Anna Salonen
    *2611 by Cat Rambo (Reprint)
    POETRY
    *Quickening by Shannon Connor Winward
    *Esprit d’escalier by May Chong
    ESSAY
    *I See Dead People by Clarke Doty
    INTERVIEW
    *Artist Interview with Kim Sokol by Rebecca Bennett

    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherApparitionLit
    Release dateJan 15, 2018
    ISBN9781370690824
    Apparition Lit, Issue 1: Apparition (January 2018)
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    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. Every issue of Apparition Lit includes:*Editorial from the staff*Four short stories that meet the quarterly theme*Two poems that meet the quarterly theme*Interview with the Cover Artist*Nonfiction EssayNew issues will be published each January, April, July, October.

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      Apparition Lit, Issue 1 - ApparitionLit

      A Word from Our Editor

      Editorial

      Editorial

      by Tacoma Tomilson

      The first editorial of our first issue! This was a daunting task I struggled with for many weeks. When I wrote the first blog for the launch of our website, the words came easily. We were finally taking the chance on an idea we’d talked about for ages. Now that our concept has become reality, it’s finally time to release Apparition Literary Magazine: Issue 1. I can’t find the right words to express how proud and how scared I feel.

      We decided on the theme of apparition for our inaugural issue because it was apt, but also because apparitions are sudden and unexpected. We may have come out of nowhere, but we’re going to haunt our little corner of the Internet.

      We’re also going to continue to grow and to adapt. We’ve faced small hurdles since we opened for submissions; it took some adjusting to navigate those bumps. It helped that we had people supporting us. I'd like to take a moment to thank every single person that submitted, visited our website, shared posts and Tweets, subscribed, and donated. You all made our November exceptional, shining a bright spot on an onerous year.

      We are extremely excited to share our first issue with you all. Each work we chose for publication approached the theme from an unusual angle, though all deal with grief and loss in some way.

      World Cry by Tara M. Williams introduces us to a dystopian future and the competition  that may have saved humanity.

      A Promise by Jennifer Hudak is lovingly, but heart-wrenchingly written from the point-of-view of a mother experiencing the passage of time.

      Quickening. This heartbreaking poem, by Shannon Connor Winward, tackles the grief of absence with a careful hand.

      The Jade Woman by Garrett Davis is about the superstitions that follow three soldiers in an unforgiving desert.

      Waiting for the Dawn. A haunting SciFi tale about grief and the impossibility of letting go by Anna Salonen.

      Esprit d'Excalier, a beautiful but harrowing poem by May Chong, about a stairway and the woman that haunts it.

      2611 by Cat Rambo, a reprint that was originally published on Patreon. It takes the idea of a haunting and twists it, leaving you with an ending that punches the air from your chest.

      The Ghost Thief by Kim Sokol is our amazing cover art. In an interview conducted by editor Rebecca Bennett, Kim discusses her creation process and the type of book she’d love her work to adorn.

      I See Dead People an essay by Clarke Doty discussing the realities of death and grief.

      We hope you enjoy reading each story and poem as much as we did. If you like this issue, I hope you will take a moment to let our authors know on our website, Facebook, or via Twitter.

      Apparition Literary Magazine is funded by the editors and by your kind donations. If you'd like to support us, please donate and/or subscribe via our website. We hope to increase pay from .01 cent a word to the professional payment of .06 a word. And be on the lookout for the upcoming launch of our Patreon, which will reward people who donate monthly.

      Thank you,

      Tacoma Tomilson

      World Cry

      by Tara Williams

      There are those who will tell you Dolores never existed. That she’s a myth or a legend invented to explain the Change. Do not believe them. Dolores was real, as real as you or me. I know because I saw her.  I was there the day she cried.

      The world then was not as the world is now. There were years of wild and wailing storms, tornadoes by land, hurricanes by sea. Then the rain stopped falling and the land grew dry and parched. Water, once free for all, grew precious and, as was the way in those days with all precious things, became the property of the few. People died of thirst. Towns evaporated. Farmland became desert. The oceans grew too hot and heavy and salty to move. When the oceans stopped moving, some land froze, some land burned. The green spots, like the water, were owned by the few.

      *

      Dolores was simple, like you and me, an Expendable, in the hard vocabulary of the New World Masters. She lived with her family underground. Above them stretched the growing fields, tended by machines with unfeeling bodies built to withstand the scorching heat. The most delicate fruits and salad greens, grown for the Masters’ tables, still required the gentler touch of human hands at harvest.

      Imagine Dolores, deep in the Earth, watching her mother slap a tortilla and slide it with care onto a ragged piece of metal balanced over a small fire.

      Vete, the mother says, waving Dolores away. Te vas a deshidratar.

      Dolores obeys. Smoke rises in the air like ghosts. She watches her father fix a rusted bicycle. He smiles at Dolores, a bright crescent in the cracked, blackened furrows of his weathered face. For the hundredth time, his hands smooth the tattered map he has made, tracing her route. Dolores nods respectfully, though the map is etched already in her mind; she sees it in her dreams and whenever she closes her eyes. Her mother stacks tortillas in a square of cloth ripped from an old shirt, tucks them into the backpack strapped onto her daughter’s shoulders. She then makes the sign of the cross over Dolores’s head, again and again, until her husband’s hand stops her.

      A full moon is rising in the vast, dark sky as Dolores pedals off toward the ancient highway. If all goes well, she will arrive in the city by morning. Her father’s loaded gun bumps against her hip, in case of thieves, for there are known to be many thieves along this road. Dolores feels calm. She has made this journey many times in her imagination. She will go, and she will win, the first from her valley ever to win the competition. She will win in the valley, then go on to state, and from state to nationals, and from nationals to the stadium in New World City, and when she wins the world title, sparkling rainbow raindrops

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