Metaphorosis 2019

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