Apparition Lit, Issue 27: Anachronism (July 2024) - E-book - ePub

Welcome to Issue 27: Anachronism! This issue is ticking with forbidden texts, Old Gods and myth, Pygmalion shaped by the digital age, sentient delivery drones finding love in flight, and a feathering of pixels to catalog our memories. Discover a little guy made of light, remnants of trauma clouded memory, haunting inspiration from what was or might have been, an apparition perfecting their aim, and being adrift in grief that spans galaxies. Editorial by Sarah Ramdawar Short Fiction"Melting Point" by Cass Wilkinson Saldaña, 1200 words, ~6 minutes reading time"Rosewater, Clinging to the Tongue" by Leah Ning, 2000 words, ~10 minutes reading time"Like a Fly Clasped in a Hand" by Nadav Schul-Kutas, 2200 words, ~11 minutes reading time"Another Old Country" by Nadia Radovich, 4900 words, ~24 minutes reading time Poetry"For Poppy" by Asa Delaney, 35 lines"Experiencing Grief Amidst Aliens" by Ayòdéjì Israel, 49 lines"Light Lies" by Coby Rosser, 38  lines"The Archive of Birds" by Mary Soon Lee, 26 lines"Galatea Pt II" by Mykki Rios, 110 words Non-FictionHere in the After by Kelsea Yu, 1000 words, ~5 minutes reading time