Welcome to the seventh issue of Apparition Lit! This quarter’s theme was Retribution. These aren't your usual stories about retaliation! This issue is loaded with tales of fantastical beasts, spiritual awakenings, and green revenge in space. EDITORIAL A Word from Our Editor by Clarke Doty SHORT FICTION Our Roots Devour by Lora Gray Dead Meat by Maria Haskins His Heart is the Haunted House by Aimee Ogden The Wolf of Pendarvis by Genevieve Sinha POETRY Sea Witch from the Deep by Ellen Huang Abeona, Goddess of Outward Journeys, pilots the interstellar ark by Nisa Malli NTERVIEW Artist Interview with buboplague ESSAY Planting the Seed: From Now and Then to Beneath a Sugar Sky by Rebecca Bennett 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, October.