Beautifully written speculative fiction from Metaphorosis magazine. Forty-nine great science fiction and fantasy stories and an equally great serialized novella. All the stories we published in 2021.

Contents

From the Editor

January

• Superbloom - Lynne Peskoe-Yang
• All We Ever Look For - Cécile Cristofari
• Unifiers - Edward Ashton
• Not All Rot Is Ruin - E.A. Petricone
• Esma's Margaret - Damien Krsteski

February

• Vacation Gnomes - Aaron DaMommio
• Rock-Adda's World - Chloe Smith
• Endless - Ted S. Bushman
• Reach for Your Ocean Heart - C.M. Fields

March

• Spells for Going Forth by Day - V.G. Campen
• Going Home - Martin Westlake
• Sanctuary - Chris Cornetto
• Siberia in Four Dimensions - Esem Junior

April

• The Big S - David Hammond
• The Otherside of Memory - Kelly Sandoval
• A Universe All to Himself - Ryan Priest
• Autumn's Come Undone - Sharmon Gazaway
• A Compilation of Accounts Concerning the Distal Brook Flood - Thomas Ha

May

• Vertical Flight - Laura Duerr
• The Song of the Moohee - Emmett Swan
• Leiprenese 101 - Jason A. Bartles
• The Nocturnals I - Mariah Montoya

June

• The Secret Keeper - Pauline Yates
• Satyajit Ray's Beard or the Lack Thereof - Abhijato Sensarma
• The Stranding - Maud Woolf
• The Nocturnals II - Mariah Montoya

July

• Singot - E.C. Fuller
• Souls Like Sea Glass - Josie Smith
• Free Hugs - Jennifer Shelby
• The Art of Unpicking Stitches - Jennifer Hudak
• The Nocturnals III - Mariah Montoya

August

• A Wizard Comes to Shorehaven - L.J. Wetherby
• The Waves In Which We Drown - Rubella Dithers
• Rapunzel Dreams of Elephants - Rachel Delaney Craft
• The Nocturnals IV - Mariah Montoya

September

• Tumbler - B. Morris Allen
• Till All the Hundred Summers Pass - J.A. Legg
• A Seedling in the Dark - Eleanor R. Wood
• The Nocturnals V - Mariah Montoya

October

• Ennui Tea - Ivy Grimes
• The Tick of the Clock - J.C. Pillard
• Genesis - Lisa Short
• Tell the Crows I'm Home - Laurel Beckley
• The Azurian Shield - Karl El-Koura

November

• Treedom - A.J. Cunder
• Right Behind You - Matthew Gomez
• The Unlucky Few Who Must Not Cast - J. Tynan Burke
• The Great Contradiction - Jordan Chase-Young

December

• Orla, Always - Thomas Ha
• Dry Season - Caite Sajwaj
• Stand or Fall - David Whitmarsh
• Gatekeepers - Douglas DiCicco
• Tides - Ailsa Bristow