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    Apparition Lit, Issue 11: Redemption (July 2020)
    Apparition Lit, Issue 11: Redemption (July 2020)
    Apparition Lit, Issue 11: Redemption (July 2020)
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    Apparition Lit, Issue 11: Redemption (July 2020)

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    Welcome to Apparition Literary’s Redemption issue. The works in this issue are multifaceted, heartfelt, some tales of redemption are a search for forgiveness, some or full-throated screams for revenge, and some are tales of quiet rebellion that can change the whole world. By the time you read the last word, the absolution in each of these stories is clear.

    SHORT FICTION
    * The Limits of Magic by Samantha Mills
    * Saying Sorry by Rebecca Fung
    * The Truth of a Lie by Jeff Reynolds
    * Once Upon a Night by Sam Muller

    POETRY
    * Posle Nas by Rosalie Morales Kearns
    * Cursebody by May Chong

    INTERVIEW
    *Artist Interview with Erika Hollice

    ESSAY
    * You Are The Dreamer and The Dream by Aurelius Raines II

    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherApparitionLit
    Release dateJul 13, 2020
    ISBN9781005740283
    Apparition Lit, Issue 11: Redemption (July 2020)
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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 11 - ApparitionLit

      Table of Contents

      Editorial

      A Word from our Editor by Tacoma Tomilson

      Short Fiction and Poetry

      The Limits of Magic by Samantha Mills

      Posle Nas by Rosalie Morales Kearns

      Saying Sorry by Rebecca Fung

      The Truth of a Lie by Jeff Reynolds

      Cursebody by May Chong

      Once Upon a Night by Sam Muller

      Interview

      Artist Interview with Erika Hollice

      Essay

      You Are The Dreamer and The Dream by Aurelius Raines II

      Thank You to Our Sponsors

      Past Issues

      A Word from our Editor

      by Tacoma Tomilson

      The works we received this submission period trended religious, or leaned on redemption through death or murder. Revenge played a prominent role. While we are always curious to see how our submission calls spark imaginations, the works we selected do not outright deal with those themes. These are multifaceted, heartfelt (and sometimes humorous!) stories and poems, and where the element of redemption is subtle, but by the time you read the last word, the absolution is clear.

      The Apparition Lit editors are pleased to present Issue 11:

      Poems:

      Cursebody by May Chong

      Posle Nas by Rosalie Morales Kearns

      Stories:

      Saying Sorry by Rebecca Fung

      Once Upon a Night by Sam Muller

      The Limits of Magic by Samantha Mills

      The Truth of a Lie by Jeff Reynolds

      Non-fiction:

      You are the Dream and the Dreamer by Aurelius Raines II

      A note to the future:

      Here at Apparition Lit, we’re always looking for ways to improve ourselves as editors, readers, and people. I’d like to share an excerpt from our Patreon blog in which we outline our upcoming plans:

      At Apparition Lit, we’ve been working on several initiatives that will help us create equity in our magazine. Last year we based our Flash Fiction contest on LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC media criticism to promote new and upcoming voices. This year we’re focusing on international artwork by BIWOC. This has helped introduce us to new writers and broaden our own mindset.

      Our magazine is still small. We can’t afford to hire Editorial Assistants, and we’ve only recently gotten the rate of submissions that needs slush readers. As we continue to expand, we will actively look for BIPOC guest editors, readers, and writers to add to our team. For 2021 (or potentially late 2020), we plan to:

      Hire a BIPOC guest editor (with pay) for each issue.

      Feature essays from writers who identify as BIPOC in upcoming issues.

      Actively recruit BIPOC volunteer slush readers (about 8 hours of commitment a quarter).

      Open up our submissions for simultaneous subs for people who identify as BIPOC and/or LGBTQIA+, since other great lit mags are open during the same period we are.

      Create a new magazine initiative and provide assistance and funds for BIPOC looking to start their own magazine.

      Create a rotating mentorship program for BIPOC writers where we can answer publishing questions, help with editing, or just provide a friendly ear.

      We will reach out to writers, readers, and editors individually, but our email and Twitter DMs are open to hearing your feedback on what you’d like to see, or if you’re interested in working with us. 

      Please consider supporting us on Patreon and following us on Twitter. Without our barnacled friends, this issue wouldn’t exist.

      Thank you,

      Tacoma Tomilson

      The Limits of Magic

      by Samantha Mills

      There is no magic that can soothe a crying baby. 

      There are salves for rashes, potions for fevers, incantations for sounder sleep. There are glamours to enhance their toys, spells to make their rattles spark and their dolls blink. Magic can protect and heal and entertain.

      But your baby is still crying. This isn’t an illness. It isn’t erupting teeth. It isn’t achy bones or cat scratches or a wet bottom. She isn’t too cold, she isn’t too hot, she isn’t hungry, she isn’t tired. Sometimes babies just cry. 

      And sometimes she’s crying because you’re crying.

      It doesn’t do any good to wipe your eyes, because she isn’t looking at your face. She’s responding to the tension in your arm and shoulder as you walk her back and forth. She’s responding to the timbre of your voice, increasingly desperate. 

      There is no magic that can soothe your grief, so there is no magic that can soothe your baby.

      He shouldn’t have gone alone.

      *

      There is no magic that can bring him back. 

      Once he set his mind to the task, there wasn’t a spell in the world that could stop him. But you would have tried. There are talismans to reveal potential futures, and charms to make listeners more amenable, and, if all else fails, wards to block a door.

      Instead you woke up to the baby’s pre-cry snuffling and you stagger-yawned over to her cradle. It wasn’t until you were in your chair, wincing at the first greedy tug on your nipple, that you realized your bed was empty.

      The nights are always cold in the desert, but that one was positively freezing. A little voice of denial suggested that he might be outside, but it didn’t hold sway for long. You knew the truth: his side of the bed had been empty for hours, from the moment your head hit the pillow after her midnight meal. The slightest twitch from the baby roused you, but apparently your subconscious didn’t give a damn about your lover.

      You already knew what you’d find: the horses gone and a messenger bird caged in their place. He wouldn’t leave you stranded, but he would slow you down. It was an argument he ended without even giving you a chance to shout.

      He should have told you what he was planning to do, but as soon as the baby was born, he got this idea fixed in his head, as though you were suddenly incapable of defending yourself.

      But you’d been capable of running away with him. You’d been capable of fighting off the Pyrandian guards, six young men you ate breakfast with every morning before you betrayed them. You had been perfectly capable of calling up the sands on Malkan Road, when the slitherbeasts would have consumed your entire party and ended the escape right there.

      And

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