Beautifully written speculative fiction from Metaphorosis magazine. Fifty-two great science fiction and fantasy stories. All the stories we published in 2020.

Contents

From the Editor

January

Kozuna, the Ogre's Child - Felicity Drake

Magical Whistleblower Tells All - Michael Sherrin

Choice - Tomas Marcantonio

Bedwyr by the Sea - C.B. Blakey

Sonata I: Sona - L. Chan

February

Pyrrha - Antony Paschos

Heart of Stone - Chris Cornetto

Grow, Divide, Sacrifice, Thrive - Jo Miles

Sonata II: Shailani - L. Chan

March

The Eighth Fathom - Chris Panatier

The Wicked Stepmother - Rhema Sayers

The Draining - Matt Hornsby

Sonata III: Canta - L. Chan

April

Revitalized - Jason P. Burnham

Clod-Shodden - J.J. Drew

Seven Scraps Unwritten - L. Chan

Donald Q. Haute, Gentleman Inquisitator, and the Peril of the Pythogator - David A. Hewitt

May

Figlia della Neve - Jonathan Louis Duckworth

Regret's Relief - Travis Wade Beaty

Pre-Triage - Joe Prosit

A Witch's Guide to Mushrooms and Toadstools - Hannah Hulbert

Exhibit 57-B from the Trial of Alonzo Montalvo v. MoodFoods Incorporated - Douglas DiCicco

June

The Record Collector - Nathaniel Williams

Zsezzyn, Who Is Not a God - Jennifer Shelby

The Woman Who Brought Love to Death - Kathryn Yelinek

Time and Grace - Joseph Halden

July

The Friendly Ghost - Ashley R. Carlson

They Build 'Em Tough on Magna Mater - R.W.W. Greene

Shards - Jordan Chase-Young

A Picture of Home, in Silence - Alexandra Seidel

The Chorley - Rachel Ayers

August

Calling Me Home - Spencer Nitkey

Devilish Calliope and the Ungrooviest Apocalypse - Evan Marcroft

All That Remains - Michael Gardner

Joy (Unplugged) - B.C. van Tol

September

Fetch - B. Morris Allen

Where the Old Neighbors Go - Thomas Ha

Pages Missing From the Diary of Samuel Pepys, Esq. - David Berger

Tower of Mud and Straw I: The Duchy - Yaroslav Barsukov

October

Good Boy - M. Douglas White

Cactus and Lizard - Hannah Costelle

Lingua Franca - Amelia Fisher

Holding - John Adams

Tower of Mud and Straw II: The Adversary - Yaroslav Barsukov

November

Madam Savva's Magical Emporium - James Rumpel

The Preserved City - Charles Schoenfeld

A Death in New York - Allison Brice

Tower of Mud and Straw III: The Tulips - Yaroslav Barsukov

December

The Skin of Aquila Cadens - Chris Panatier

The Three Thousand - Elise Kim

Heritage - Andrei Pechalin

Tower of Mud and Straw IV: The Tower - Yaroslav Barsukov