Metaphorosis Magazine 
Metaphorosis 2023 
The Complete Stories

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

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