Metaphorosis 2023

Beautifully written speculative fiction from Metaphorosis magazine.



Forty-five great science fiction and fantasy stories, including a novelette and a full novella. All the stories we published in 2023.



Contents



From the Editor



January

Packing List for Oblivion - Cameron BertronThe Knight Who Carried a Sword in His Heart - Joshua HagyWe, You, and the Gallery - Alex PenlandThe Zoo Diaries I - Frances PauliFebruary

The Excursionist of JCPenney - Chris PanatierThe Frozen Generation - Jacob CoffinThe Numismatist - Cecelia IsaacThe Zoo Diaries II - Frances PauliMarch

All the Daughters Sing - Jan PriddyMy Little Sister Brigid - Harold R. ThompsonRiver's Song - Michael BarronPain Eater - Danny MenterThe Zoo Diaries III - Frances PauliApril

Shortcut to Happily Ever After - Ben WanTrapped in Memory - Dan Le FeverHeart Moon - R. GatwoodThe Zoo Diaries IV - Frances PauliMay

The Diamond Noose - Ramez YoakeimThe Conch Shell - Elizabeth RaphaelAnamnesis - Karl El-KouraThe Zoo Diaries V - Frances PauliJune

Catching College - Maggie SlaterEscape to Mall B - Theodore LowrySnow Like Pink Pepper - Devan BarlowNothing but the Gods On Their Backs - Alex T. SingerThe Zoo Diaries VI - Frances PauliJuly

When The Future Calls - Salena CashaWhen the Oracle Speaks - Albert ChuThe Princia Prologos - Aaron ZimmermanThe Antidote for Longing I - Karl DandenellAugust

A Wielder Does Not Know Regret - Katherine KarchA Life of Color - N.V. HaskellThe Bookseller of Mars - Gaby BroganThe Antidote for Longing II - Karl DandenellSeptember

That Lonesome, Restless Feeling - B. Morris AllenArborify - Cadence MandyburaAstrid Underwater - J.J. EskelinShe Was the Universe - Damian StockliThe Antidote for Longing III - Karl DandenellOctober

Any Day Now - K.E. RedmondSalaatu - Lisa ShortHard Sunset - Sam GriffinTranslations for a Dead Sea - Corey FarrenkopfNovember

The Fool Who Sings You To Your Grave - Katie CervenecIt Thaws in Spring - Brittany M. PerkinsRosalind Dreams of Aersea - Travis BurnhamSaving the Whales - C.J. ErickDecember

Visions for the Independent City of New York - Cidney MayesThe Final Face - Norah LovelockWhen Darkness Falls on Edinburgh - C.J. ErickUseful and Beautiful Things - E. SaxeyThe Beast-Consul - E.C. Dorgan