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Beautifully written speculative fiction from Metaphorosis magazine.
Forty-five great science fiction and fantasy stories, including a full novella and novelette. All the stories we published in 2023.
Contents
From the Editor
January
Packing List for Oblivion - Cameron Bertron The Knight Who Carried a Sword in His Heart - Joshua Hagy We, You, and the Gallery - Alex Penland The Zoo Diaries I - Frances Pauli
February
The Excursionist of JCPenney - Chris Panatier The Frozen Generation - Jacob Coffin The Numismatist - Cecelia Isaac The Zoo Diaries II - Frances Pauli
March
All the Daughters Sing - Jan Priddy My Little Sister Brigid - Harold R. Thompson River's Song - Michael Barron Pain Eater - Danny Menter The Zoo Diaries III - Frances Pauli
April
Shortcut to Happily Ever After - Ben Wan Trapped in Memory - Dan Le Fever Heart Moon - R. Gatwood The Zoo Diaries IV - Frances Pauli
May
The Diamond Noose - Ramez Yoakeim The Conch Shell - Elizabeth Raphael Anamnesis - Karl El-Koura The Zoo Diaries V - Frances Pauli
June
Catching College - Maggie Slater Escape to Mall B - Theodore Lowry Snow Like Pink Pepper - Devan Barlow Nothing but the Gods On Their Backs - Alex T. Singer The Zoo Diaries VI - Frances Pauli
July
When The Future Calls - Salena Casha When the Oracle Speaks - Albert Chu The Princia Prologos - Aaron Zimmerman The Antidote for Longing I - Karl Dandenell
August
A Wielder Does Not Know Regret - Katherine Karch A Life of Color - N.V. Haskell The Bookseller of Mars - Gaby Brogan The Antidote for Longing II - Karl Dandenell
September
That Lonesome, Restless Feeling - B. Morris Allen Arborify - Cadence Mandybura Astrid Underwater - J.J. Eskelin She Was the Universe - Damian Stockli The Antidote for Longing III - Karl Dandenell
October
Any Day Now - K.E. Redmond Salaatu - Lisa Short Hard Sunset - Sam Griffin Translations for a Dead Sea - Corey Farrenkopf
November
The Fool Who Sings You To Your Grave - Katie Cervenec It Thaws in Spring - Brittany M. Perkins Rosalind Dreams of Aersea - Travis Burnham Saving the Whales - C.J. Erick
December
Visions for the Independent City of New York - Cidney Mayes The Final Face - Norah Lovelock When Darkness Falls on Edinburgh - C.J. Erick Useful and Beautiful Things - E. Saxey
The Beast-Consul - E.C. Dorgan
