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Welcome to Issue 20: Nostalgia! This issue contains more than rose-coloured glasses. Our writers look for memory and meaning in video arcades and on the skirts of erupting volcanoes. Nostalgia is foiund within in a chosen name and an unsprung feather, an interstellar gift and a phantom limb, in our suddenly misbehaving bodies. EDITORIAL A Word from our Editor by Sabrina Vourvoulias SHORT FICTION The Hungry Tree by Auden Patrick – 3300 words, ~16 minutes reading time A, B, B, A by Russell Nichols – 2700 words, ~14 minutes reading time Solo le quedaron ocho por elena félix/Then there were right by elena félix – 800 words, ~4 minutes reading time Wing/Flower by Endria Isa Richardson – 2500 words, ~13 minutes reading time Entre cráteres, nosotros por Ana Hurtado – 2000 words, ~10 minutes reading time POETRY Backward Compatibility (Quinceañera on a Generation Ship) by Katherine Quevedo – 31 lines Icarus, and the Truths That Bore Him by Jessica Cho – 48 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