Beautifully written speculative fiction from Metaphorosis magazine.

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

Contents

From the Editor

January

• Packing List for Oblivion - Cameron Bertron


• The Knight Who Carried a Sword in His Heart - Joshua Hagy


• We, You, and the Gallery - Alex Penland


• The Zoo Diaries I - Frances Pauli

February

• The Excursionist of JCPenney - Chris Panatier


• The Frozen Generation - Jacob Coffin


• The Numismatist - Cecelia Isaac


• The Zoo Diaries II - Frances Pauli

March

• All the Daughters Sing - Jan Priddy


• My Little Sister Brigid - Harold R. Thompson


• River's Song - Michael Barron


• Pain Eater - Danny Menter


• The Zoo Diaries III - Frances Pauli

April

• Shortcut to Happily Ever After - Ben Wan


• Trapped in Memory - Dan Le Fever


• Heart Moon - R. Gatwood


• The Zoo Diaries IV - Frances Pauli

May

• The Diamond Noose - Ramez Yoakeim


• The Conch Shell - Elizabeth Raphael


• Anamnesis - Karl El-Koura


• The Zoo Diaries V - Frances Pauli

June

• Catching College - Maggie Slater


• Escape to Mall B - Theodore Lowry


• Snow Like Pink Pepper - Devan Barlow


• Nothing but the Gods On Their Backs - Alex T. Singer


• The Zoo Diaries VI - Frances Pauli

July

• When The Future Calls - Salena Casha


• When the Oracle Speaks - Albert Chu


• The Princia Prologos - Aaron Zimmerman


• The Antidote for Longing I - Karl Dandenell

August

• A Wielder Does Not Know Regret - Katherine Karch


• A Life of Color - N.V. Haskell


• The Bookseller of Mars - Gaby Brogan


• The Antidote for Longing II - Karl Dandenell

September

• That Lonesome, Restless Feeling - B. Morris Allen


• Arborify - Cadence Mandybura


• Astrid Underwater - J.J. Eskelin


• She Was the Universe - Damian Stockli


• The Antidote for Longing III - Karl Dandenell

October

• Any Day Now - K.E. Redmond


• Salaatu - Lisa Short


• Hard Sunset - Sam Griffin


• Translations for a Dead Sea - Corey Farrenkopf

November

• The Fool Who Sings You To Your Grave - Katie Cervenec


• It Thaws in Spring - Brittany M. Perkins


• Rosalind Dreams of Aersea - Travis Burnham


• Saving the Whales - C.J. Erick

December

• Visions for the Independent City of New York - Cidney Mayes


• The Final Face - Norah Lovelock


• When Darkness Falls on Edinburgh - C.J. Erick


• Useful and Beautiful Things - E. Saxey

The Beast-Consul - E.C. Dorgan