Metaphorosis 2023: The Complete Stories (Complete Metaphorosis #8)

Description

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