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 Uzum

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 Mot

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 Valc rcel

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 Laoco n Program -- Phoenix Alexander