

Metaphorosis March 2018
Beautifully written speculative fiction from Metaphorosis magazine. Fifty-two great science fiction and fantasy stories. All the stories we published in 2018.
Contents
From the Editor
January
The Seer at Sunset Hills Shopping Plaza — Katherine Perdue
Jewel/Gem Offering — Emily McIntyre
This Side of the Wall — Michael Gardner
Memory is a Rumor — Yaroslav Barsukov
February
Love in its Heart — David Z. Morris
Cheminagium — David Gallay
Hold This Star for Me — Mark David Adam
Hishi — David A. Gray
March
Always Dawn to Forever Night — Luke Elliott
Any Old Disease — Dimitra Nikolaidou
Velaya, the Dreaming City — Beston Barnett
Switch — Lisa Clark
The Three Sisters — K.D. Azariah-Kribbs
April
Bye Bye Skinny Cow — Hamilton Perez
Cathedra — M.C. Tuggle
The Cypress and the Rose — Sandi Leibowitz
Koehl's Quality Impressions — Tim McDaniel
May
Calm Folk, Come Forth — Adan Berkowitz
On the Scales of Dragons — Kathryn Yelinek
Suzy's Friend — David Hammond
Chasing the Light — Gloria Wickman
June
The Foaling Season — Samuel Chapman
Nobody's Daughters and the Tree of Life — L'Erin Ogle
Strangers in the Night — David Whitaker
The Tapestry — A.C. Worth
The Stars Don't Lie — R.W.W. Greene
July
Time's Arrow — C. Heidmann
The Forest of New People — Thom Connors
The Dream Diary of Monk Anchin — Felicity Drake
It Feels Like Déjà Vu — Phong Quan
August
The Bagel Shop Owner's Nephew — J. Tynan Burke
Upon the Fallen Leaves of the Gingko Tree — Mads Alvey
Just a Fire — A. Martine
All the Colors I Cannot See — L'Erin Ogle
Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost — Douglas Anstruther
September
Graven Image — B. Morris Allen
The Yarnball Woman — Michael Milne
Familiar in Her Angles — E.A. Brenner
Combustion — Kai Hudson
October
Reproduction in a Closed Loop — Andrew M LeBlanc
Nana Naoko's Garden — Michael Gardner
Twins — Gregory Kane
The Astronaut Tier — Jonathan Laidlow
November
The Little G-d of Łódź — Evan Marcroft
A House on the Volga — Filip Wiltgren
When the Last Friend is Gone — Tris Matthews
Sorry, Sorry, Sorry and I Love You — L'Erin Ogle
Graveyard — Arlen Feldman
December
Of Hair and Beanstalks — William Condon
I Will Go Gently — Susan McDonough-Wachtman
Family Tree — Lindsey Duncan
Cinders and Snow — Kathryn Yelinek
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