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