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Beautifully written speculative fiction from Metaphorosis magazine. Fifty-two great science fiction and fantasy stories. All the stories we published in 2020.
Contents
From the Editor
January
Kozuna, the Ogre’s Child - Felicity Drake
Magical Whistleblower Tells All - Michael Sherrin
Choice - Tomas Marcantonio
Bedwyr by the Sea - C.B. Blakey
Sonata I: Sona - L. Chan
February
Pyrrha - Antony Paschos
Heart of Stone - Chris Cornetto
Grow, Divide, Sacrifice, Thrive - Jo Miles
Sonata II: Shailani - L. Chan
March
The Eighth Fathom - Chris Panatier
The Wicked Stepmother - Rhema Sayers
The Draining - Matt Hornsby
Sonata III: Canta - L. Chan
April
Revitalized - Jason P. Burnham
Clod-Shodden - J.J. Drew
Seven Scraps Unwritten - L. Chan
Donald Q. Haute, Gentleman Inquisitator, and the Peril of the Pythogator - David A. Hewitt
May
Figlia della Neve - Jonathan Louis Duckworth
Regret’s Relief - Travis Wade Beaty
Pre-Triage - Joe Prosit
A Witch’s Guide to Mushrooms and Toadstools - Hannah Hulbert
Exhibit 57-B from the Trial of Alonzo Montalvo v. MoodFoods Incorporated - Douglas DiCicco
June
The Record Collector - Nathaniel Williams
Zsezzyn, Who Is Not a God - Jennifer Shelby
The Woman Who Brought Love to Death - Kathryn Yelinek
Time and Grace - Joseph Halden
July
The Friendly Ghost - Ashley R. Carlson
They Build ‘Em Tough on Magna Mater - R.W.W. Greene
Shards - Jordan Chase-Young
A Picture of Home, in Silence - Alexandra Seidel
The Chorley - Rachel Ayers
August
Calling Me Home - Spencer Nitkey
Devilish Calliope and the Ungrooviest Apocalypse - Evan Marcroft
All That Remains - Michael Gardner
Joy (Unplugged) - B.C. van Tol
September
Fetch - B. Morris Allen
Where the Old Neighbors Go - Thomas Ha
Pages Missing From the Diary of Samuel Pepys, Esq. - David Berger
Tower of Mud and Straw I: The Duchy - Yaroslav Barsukov
October
Good Boy - M. Douglas White
Cactus and Lizard - Hannah Costelle
Lingua Franca - Amelia Fisher
Holding - John Adams
Tower of Mud and Straw II: The Adversary - Yaroslav Barsukov
November
Madam Savva’s Magical Emporium - James Rumpel
The Preserved City - Charles Schoenfeld
A Death in New York - Allison Brice
Tower of Mud and Straw III: The Tulips - Yaroslav Barsukov
December
The Skin of Aquila Cadens - Chris Panatier
The Three Thousand - Elise Kim
Heritage - Andrei Pechalin
Tower of Mud and Straw IV: The Tower - Yaroslav Barsukov
