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