Welcome to Issue 18: Wanderlust from Apparition Literary Magazine! Wanderlust's stories and poetry set a complex itinerary: first we trip through portals, then swim underwater, next we hop from brain to brain, finally we venture back to our ancestral home.

EDITORIAL
A Word from our Editor by M.L. Krishnan

SHORT FICTION
Six Steps To Become A Saint by Avi Burton ? 3000 words, ~15 minutes reading time
A Spring Divine by Armaan Kapur ? 3900 words, ~19 minutes reading time
Hitchhiker by Lindz McLeod ? 3800 words, ~18 minutes reading time
The Grief Portal by Aun-Juli Riddle ? 3400 words, ~17 minutes reading time

POETRY
After Inventing Time Travel by Mary Soon Lee ? 18 lines
While Alice sleeps in Wonderland by Marisca Pichette ? 57 lines

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