Metaphorosis 2023

<p><strong>Beautifully written speculative fiction from Metaphorosis magazine.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Forty-five great science fiction and fantasy stories including a novelette and a full novella. All the stories we published in 2023.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Contents</strong></p><p><br></p><p>From the Editor</p><p><br></p><p><u>January</u></p><ul><li>Packing List for Oblivion - Cameron Bertron</li><li>The Knight Who Carried a Sword in His Heart - Joshua Hagy</li><li>We You and the Gallery - Alex Penland</li><li>The Zoo Diaries I - Frances Pauli</li></ul><p><u>February</u></p><ul><li>The Excursionist of JCPenney - Chris Panatier</li><li>The Frozen Generation - Jacob Coffin</li><li>The Numismatist - Cecelia Isaac</li><li>The Zoo Diaries II - Frances Pauli</li></ul><p><u>March</u></p><ul><li>All the Daughters Sing - Jan Priddy</li><li>My Little Sister Brigid - Harold R. Thompson</li><li>River's Song - Michael Barron</li><li>Pain Eater - Danny Menter</li><li>The Zoo Diaries III - Frances Pauli</li></ul><p><u>April</u></p><ul><li>Shortcut to Happily Ever After - Ben Wan</li><li>Trapped in Memory - Dan Le Fever</li><li>Heart Moon - R. Gatwood</li><li>The Zoo Diaries IV - Frances Pauli</li></ul><p><u>May</u></p><ul><li>The Diamond Noose - Ramez Yoakeim</li><li>The Conch Shell - Elizabeth Raphael</li><li>Anamnesis - Karl El-Koura</li><li>The Zoo Diaries V - Frances Pauli</li></ul><p><u>June</u></p><ul><li>Catching College - Maggie Slater</li><li>Escape to Mall B - Theodore Lowry</li><li>Snow Like Pink Pepper - Devan Barlow</li><li>Nothing but the Gods On Their Backs - Alex T. Singer</li><li>The Zoo Diaries VI - Frances Pauli</li></ul><p><u>July</u></p><ul><li>When The Future Calls - Salena Casha</li><li>When the Oracle Speaks - Albert Chu</li><li>The Princia Prologos - Aaron Zimmerman</li><li>The Antidote for Longing I - Karl Dandenell</li></ul><p><u>August</u></p><ul><li>A Wielder Does Not Know Regret - Katherine Karch</li><li>A Life of Color - N.V. Haskell</li><li>The Bookseller of Mars - Gaby Brogan</li><li>The Antidote for Longing II - Karl Dandenell</li></ul><p><u>September</u></p><ul><li>That Lonesome Restless Feeling - B. Morris Allen</li><li>Arborify - Cadence Mandybura</li><li>Astrid Underwater - J.J. Eskelin</li><li>She Was the Universe - Damian Stockli</li><li>The Antidote for Longing III - Karl Dandenell</li></ul><p><u>October</u></p><ul><li>Any Day Now - K.E. Redmond</li><li>Salaatu - Lisa Short</li><li>Hard Sunset - Sam Griffin</li><li>Translations for a Dead Sea - Corey Farrenkopf</li></ul><p><u>November</u></p><ul><li>The Fool Who Sings You To Your Grave - Katie Cervenec</li><li>It Thaws in Spring - Brittany M. Perkins</li><li>Rosalind Dreams of Aersea - Travis Burnham</li><li>Saving the Whales - C.J. Erick</li></ul><p><u>December</u></p><ul><li>Visions for the Independent City of New York - Cidney Mayes</li><li>The Final Face - Norah Lovelock</li><li>When Darkness Falls on Edinburgh - C.J. Erick</li><li>Useful and Beautiful Things - E. Saxey</li></ul><p>The Beast-Consul - E.C. Dorgan</p>