Beautifully written speculative fiction from Metaphorosis magazine. Fifty-two great science fiction and fantasy stories. All the stories we published in 2018.

Contents

From the Editor

January
The Seer at Sunset Hills Shopping Plaza -- Katherine Perdue
Jewel/Gem Offering -- Emily McIntyre
This Side of the Wall -- Michael Gardner
Memory is a Rumor -- Yaroslav Barsukov

February
Love in its Heart -- David Z. Morris
Cheminagium -- David Gallay
Hold This Star for Me -- Mark David Adam
Hishi -- David A. Gray

March
Always Dawn to Forever Night -- Luke Elliott
Any Old Disease -- Dimitra Nikolaidou
Velaya, the Dreaming City -- Beston Barnett
Switch -- Lisa Clark
The Three Sisters -- K.D. Azariah-Kribbs

April
Bye Bye Skinny Cow -- Hamilton Perez
Cathedra -- M.C. Tuggle
The Cypress and the Rose -- Sandi Leibowitz
Koehl's Quality Impressions -- Tim McDaniel

May
Calm Folk, Come Forth -- Adan Berkowitz
On the Scales of Dragons -- Kathryn Yelinek
Suzy's Friend -- David Hammond
Chasing the Light -- Gloria Wickman

June
The Foaling Season -- Samuel Chapman
Nobody's Daughters and the Tree of Life -- L'Erin Ogle
Strangers in the Night -- David Whitaker
The Tapestry -- A.C. Worth
The Stars Don't Lie -- R.W.W. Greene

July
Time's Arrow -- C. Heidmann
The Forest of New People -- Thom Connors
The Dream Diary of Monk Anchin -- Felicity Drake
It Feels Like D j Vu -- Phong Quan

August
The Bagel Shop Owner's Nephew -- J. Tynan Burke
Upon the Fallen Leaves of the Gingko Tree -- Mads Alvey
Just a Fire -- A. Martine
All the Colors I Cannot See -- L'Erin Ogle
Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost -- Douglas Anstruther

September
Graven Image -- B. Morris Allen
The Yarnball Woman -- Michael Milne
Familiar in Her Angles -- E.A. Brenner
Combustion -- Kai Hudson

October
Reproduction in a Closed Loop -- Andrew M LeBlanc
Nana Naoko's Garden -- Michael Gardner
Twins -- Gregory Kane
The Astronaut Tier -- Jonathan Laidlow

November
The Little G-d of L dź -- Evan Marcroft
A House on the Volga -- Filip Wiltgren
When the Last Friend is Gone -- Tris Matthews
Sorry, Sorry, Sorry and I Love You -- L'Erin Ogle
Graveyard -- Arlen Feldman

December
Of Hair and Beanstalks -- William Condon
I Will Go Gently -- Susan McDonough-Wachtman
Family Tree -- Lindsey Duncan
Cinders and Snow -- Kathryn Yelinek