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
