Metaphorosis 2021

Beautifully written speculative fiction from Metaphorosis magazine. Forty-nine great science fiction and fantasy stories and an equally great serialized novella. All the stories we published in 2021.



Contents



From the Editor



January

Superbloom - Lynne Peskoe-YangAll We Ever Look For - Cécile CristofariUnifiers - Edward AshtonNot All Rot Is Ruin - E.A. PetriconeEsma's Margaret - Damien Krsteski

February

Vacation Gnomes - Aaron DaMommioRock-Adda's World - Chloe SmithEndless - Ted S. BushmanReach for Your Ocean Heart - C.M. Fields

March

Spells for Going Forth by Day - V.G. CampenGoing Home - Martin WestlakeSanctuary - Chris CornettoSiberia in Four Dimensions - Esem Junior

April

The Big S - David HammondThe Otherside of Memory - Kelly SandovalA Universe All to Himself - Ryan PriestAutumn's Come Undone - Sharmon GazawayA Compilation of Accounts Concerning the Distal Brook Flood - Thomas Ha

May

Vertical Flight - Laura DuerrThe Song of the Moohee - Emmett SwanLeiprenese 101 - Jason A. BartlesThe Nocturnals I - Mariah Montoya

June

The Secret Keeper - Pauline YatesSatyajit Ray's Beard or the Lack Thereof - Abhijato SensarmaThe Stranding - Maud WoolfThe Nocturnals II - Mariah Montoya

July

Singot - E.C. FullerSouls Like Sea Glass - Josie SmithFree Hugs - Jennifer ShelbyThe Art of Unpicking Stitches - Jennifer HudakThe Nocturnals III - Mariah Montoya

August

A Wizard Comes to Shorehaven - L.J. WetherbyThe Waves In Which We Drown - Rubella DithersRapunzel Dreams of Elephants - Rachel Delaney CraftThe Nocturnals IV - Mariah Montoya

September

Tumbler - B. Morris AllenTill All the Hundred Summers Pass - J.A. LeggA Seedling in the Dark - Eleanor R. WoodThe Nocturnals V - Mariah Montoya

October

Ennui Tea - Ivy GrimesThe Tick of the Clock - J.C. PillardGenesis - Lisa ShortTell the Crows I'm Home - Laurel BeckleyThe Azurian Shield - Karl El-Koura

November

Treedom - A.J. CunderRight Behind You - Matthew GomezThe Unlucky Few Who Must Not Cast - J. Tynan BurkeThe Great Contradiction - Jordan Chase-Young

December

Orla, Always - Thomas HaDry Season - Caite SajwajStand or Fall - David WhitmarshGatekeepers - Douglas DiCiccoTides - Ailsa Bristow