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 RaeIn the House of Geometers - David CledenSilo - J.S. DiStefanoShades of the Sea - J.A. Prentice

February

A Lie in the Sand - Devin MillerHeartbeat of the Seasons - Brian HugenbruchFreely Given - Connor MellegersThe Diary of Thisne Ome - Thomas OupheMarch

Hope on the Vine - R.E. DukalskyMission and Submission - Will GwaunThe Future in a Wash Basin - Erin KeatingThe Year of the Bright Lands - Felix Taylor

April

The Dragon and the Unicorn - Wade DarginThe Ghosts of Daughters Possible - Amman SabetThe Last Doctor - Jonathan Louis DuckworthThe Spinster and the Sea - J.C. PillardSturm und Clang - Sara Kate Ellis

May

Indicative of Future Results - C.H. RosenbergMedusa Rising - Christine LucasFrom a Mother to Her Daughter, on the Eve of Her Wedding - Elliott GishMidnight's Second Station - Chloe Smith

June

Since We Don't Have Wings - Gwen WhitingTime, Wolf, Emit, Flow - Anna MaddenHer Spirit Animal - L.A.W. ButlerTashala's Hair - Richard Strachan

July

The Eye of the Goddess - Samuel ParrThe Lost Library - Mahmud El SayedBy the Scars Shall You Know - Daniel AusemaThe Girl Who Drew the World - L.D. OxfordThe Heebie-Jeebie Beam - E.C. FullerQueen of Crows - Rachel Ayers

August

The Hissing Trees - Ian Donnell ArbuckleThe Crystal Pyramid - Mia RamFrozen in Glass - Hope Davies

September

To the Wild Sea - B. Morris AllenFor the Love of Wild Things - Mande MatthewsHer Last Will - Karl El-KouraPortals and Other Lost Things - Elizabeth RankinInfinite Possibilities I - Michael Gardner

October

Problems of the Flesh - Hamilton PerezA Xenothanatologist's Guidebook to Death Practices Among the Sapient Species of the Outer Perseus Arm of the Milky Way Galaxy - P.G. StreeterHolding On - Justen RussellInfinite Possibilities II - Michael Gardner

November

If Gold Runs Red - Gordon GriceBas Relief - Joshua GrassoAn Hour in the City of Lightning - A.D. GuzmanInfinite Possibilities III - Michael Gardner

December

The Dragon's Due - Christopher WardenThrough the Middle - J.B. KishLove, Death, and the Electric Soul - Alexandra PeelSnowman - Han WhiteoakInfinite Possibilities IV - Michael Gardner