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 Déjà 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 Łódź — 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