Welcome to Apparition Literary’s transfiguration edition. This issue contains works with transformed characters and questioned social mores. SHORT FICTION Possible Human Hearts by Lyndsie Manusos The Bear Wife by Leah Bobet The Order of Stolen Hearts by Xan van Rooyen What the Water Gave Her by Avra Margariti POETRY Still by Rachel McKinley All the Better by Jessica J. Horowitz NON-FICTION Artist Interview with Tijana Jankovic It’s OK to Cry During a Pandemic by Amy Henry Robinson 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.