Metaphorosis 2022

Beautifully written speculative fiction from Metaphorosis magazine.



Forty-eight great science fiction and fantasy stories and an equally great serialized novella. All the stories we published in 2022.



Contents



From the Editor



January
• My Synthetic Soul - Karris Rae
• In the House of Geometers - David Cleden
• Silo - J.S. DiStefano
• Shades of the Sea - J.A. Prentice



February
• A Lie in the Sand - Devin Miller
• Heartbeat of the Seasons - Brian Hugenbruch
• Freely Given - Connor Mellegers
• The Diary of Thisne Ome - Thomas Ouphe
March
• Hope on the Vine - R.E. Dukalsky
• Mission and Submission - Will Gwaun
• The Future in a Wash Basin - Erin Keating
• The Year of the Bright Lands - Felix Taylor



April
• The Dragon and the Unicorn - Wade Dargin
• The Ghosts of Daughters Possible - Amman Sabet
• The Last Doctor - Jonathan Louis Duckworth
• The Spinster and the Sea - J.C. Pillard
• Sturm und Clang - Sara Kate Ellis



May
• Indicative of Future Results - C.H. Rosenberg
• Medusa Rising - Christine Lucas
• From a Mother to Her Daughter, on the Eve of Her Wedding - Elliott Gish
• Midnight's Second Station - Chloe Smith



June
• Since We Don't Have Wings - Gwen Whiting
• Time, Wolf, Emit, Flow - Anna Madden
• Her Spirit Animal - L.A.W. Butler
• Tashala's Hair - Richard Strachan



July
• The Eye of the Goddess - Samuel Parr
• The Lost Library - Mahmud El Sayed
• By the Scars Shall You Know - Daniel Ausema
• The Girl Who Drew the World - L.D. Oxford
• The Heebie-Jeebie Beam - E.C. Fuller
• Queen of Crows - Rachel Ayers



August
• The Hissing Trees - Ian Donnell Arbuckle
• The Crystal Pyramid - Mia Ram
• Frozen in Glass - Hope Davies



September
• To the Wild Sea - B. Morris Allen
• For the Love of Wild Things - Mande Matthews
• Her Last Will - Karl El-Koura
• Portals and Other Lost Things - Elizabeth Rankin
• Infinite Possibilities I - Michael Gardner



October
• Problems of the Flesh - Hamilton Perez
• A Xenothanatologist's Guidebook to Death Practices Among the Sapient Species of the Outer Perseus Arm of the Milky Way Galaxy - P.G. Streeter
• Holding On - Justen Russell
• Infinite Possibilities II - Michael Gardner



November
• If Gold Runs Red - Gordon Grice
• Bas Relief - Joshua Grasso
• An Hour in the City of Lightning - A.D. Guzman
• Infinite Possibilities III - Michael Gardner



December
• The Dragon's Due - Christopher Warden
• Through the Middle - J.B. Kish
• Love, Death, and the Electric Soul - Alexandra Peel
• Snowman - Han Whiteoak
• Infinite Possibilities IV - Michael Gardner