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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