Complete Metaphorosis

Beautifully written speculative fiction from Metaphorosis magazine. Fifty-two great science fiction and fantasy stories. All the stories we published in 2019.

Contents

From the Editor

January
The Book of Regrets — M.J. Gardner
Five Star Review — Alyssa N. Vaughn
Two Villains, a Notebook, and a Lump of Coal — Helen French
Snapped Dry, Scraped Clean — Setsu Uzumé

February
The Lightkeeper’s Wife — Amelia Dee Mueller
The Soul Farmer’s Daughters — Kyle Kirrin
The Bear Wife — Catherine George
Mean Streak — L’Erin Ogle

March
Pleasing the Giants — Carolyn Lenz
Absurd of a Feather — Amman Sabet
The Noise Inside — Vaya Pseftaki
L’Appel du Vide — Rajiv Moté
The Color of My Home is Red Like an Apple — Evan Marcroft

April
A Yellow Landscape — Sarah McGill
Forever and a Life — Daniel Roy
With Eyes Half Open — Frances Pauli
A Sacrifice for the Queen — Luke Murphy

May
Somewhere to be Going — Katrina Smith
One for the Wounded — Phoenix Alexander
In the Beating of a Wing — David Cleden
The Memory Dresser — Nicholas M. Stillman
Unmasked — Tomas Marcantonio

June
Country Whispers — Matthew Amundsen
The Thousand Revolutions of Kronstadt — Pablo Valcárcel
Las Vegas Museum of Space Exploration — Marilee Dahlman
The Girls Who Come Back Are Made of Metal and Glass — L’Erin Ogle

July
One Day in Space Too Many — Michael Sherrin
A Layer Thin As Breath — Thea Boodhoo
Communication Breakdown — Andrew Knighton
The Offshore — Josh Taylor

August
Never Fade Away — Claire Simpson
A Bear, or a Spider, or an Elephant — Edward Ashton
The Last Duty — Dawn Lloyd
The Propagator — Simone Kern
There is a City, He Told Me — Evan James Sheldon

September
Some Sun and Delilah — B. Morris Allen
Favorites from Here and Abroad — Peter T. Donahue
A Final Resting Place — Matt Hornsby
The Guardian of Werifest Park — Carly Racklin

October
Darling — Kathryn Weaver
Misalignment — Erik Goldsmith
The Season of Withering — Lisa Short
Super — Yume Kitasei

November
Rooks on Sundays — Jack Neel Waddell
Via Dolorosa — Christine Lucas
A Time for Understanding — Lisa Fox
Fur and Feathers — Jess Koch
The Lonely King — Gunnar De Winter

December
The Martian in the Greenhouse — Geoffrey W. Cole
What Lies in Light — Laura Duerr
The Dybbuk — Lewis Gershom
Notes from the Laocoön Program — Phoenix Alexander