Beautifully written speculative fiction from Metaphorosis.All the stories from the month, plus author biographies, interviews, and story originsTable of ContentsLa Belle Dame – Sabrina N. BalmickThe Sea Bank of Svalbard South – Octavia CadeThe Heresy Machine – Gerald WarfieldSpoiler: She Leaves Him – Jack Noble

Beautifully written speculative fiction from Metaphorosis magazine. The best science fiction and fantasy stories from Metaphorosis magazine's first year. Mysterious languages, unusual dogs, solitude, alien communications, and magic. Stories from Joshua Phillip Johnson, Elise Forier Edie, Vanessa Fogg, Gerald Warfield, Meryl Stenhouse, Jeremy Packert Burke, Molly Etta, Jack Noble, Aatif Rashid, L. Chan, Kato Thompson, Jarod K. Anderson, and Octavia Cade. Contents:

Beautifully written speculative fiction from Metaphorosis magazine.All the stories from the month, plus author biographies, interviews, and story origins.Table of ContentsNotes Towards a New Fairytale – Patrick DoerksenThe Number of the Tribe – Gerald WarfieldMy Book Report on Starlight – Joachim HeijndermansThe Wife of Fabian Vitalik – Mariah MontoyaCover art by Carol Wellart.

"Artfully explores themes of pain, desire, and the meeting place of the two, for a surreal, fairytale–esque accounting of what happens when we go to the darkest places within ourselves, and within others.” —NYLONPart fairy tale, part horror story, Northwood is a genre–breaking novella told in short, brilliant, beautifully strange passages. The narrator, a young woman, has fled to the forest to pursue her artwork in isolation. While there, she fall...

Witness a first-person view of a changed world.A solitary survivor hides in a mountain above the city, living in a trailer with the door and windows duct-taped shut. Outside, the air is poisoned with a virulent disease that has killed off most humans. Those who lived have become something else. Something that hunts and kills. Survival in this new world comes down to two, simple rules: stay quiet and protect the air. It's an obsessive and regimented life, but one day a visitor comes...

"Once we were all just people. Our culture was only an element of our complex being. Now, we are reduced to our origins." -- Amelia Fisher, "The Children of Echidna"No one understands being an outsider like the people who have experienced it. Mad Scientist Journal has brought together twenty-six tales of people who have lived in a world that doesn't accept them. Some face their situation with humor, others less so. Vampires, werewolves, and changelings share space in these pages wi...

An illustrated book for adults and older children, told entirely in rhyme. in collaboration with artist Simon Schild.Three hundred years ago from now,when land was tilled with horse and ploughAn innocent man was hunted down,and thrown into a lake to drownOver time, the lake stagnated,and memory of the man abatedBut one dark night there came a storm,and Crackly Bones, the fiend, was born!SynopsisThree hundred years ago...

Poems About Love and Space Stuff: and some other subjects is the first publication by nonbinary poet and writer Storey Campbell. Written between the years of 2015 and 2018, the poems featured were handpicked by the author to make this collection. A long-time sufferer of depression, anxiety, and PTSD, the works explore Storey's struggles with these conditions and working to find love in people, places, and hobbies even and despite working through them. Additionally, being transgend...

Starting in 2017, I made a promise to write an original poem, put it on a postcard with a photograph or illustration, and mail them every month with the purpose to patrons. The purpose was to challenge myself, to entertain the reader, to lighten the load of bills pulled from the mailbox, and maybe inspire others. This collection gathers the first five years of that interactive journey between poem and audience. An eclectic slice-of-life, each poem offers a glimpse of living in perpetual cr...

The concluding part of the highly-acclaimed science fiction trilogy that began with Nnedi Okorafor's Hugo- and Nebula Award-winning BINTI.Binti has returned to her home planet, believing that the violence of the Meduse has been left behind. Unfortunately, although her people are peaceful on the whole, the same cannot be said for the Khoush, who fan the flames of their ancient rivalry with the Meduse.Far from her village when the conflicts start, Bi...

Breakout star Creepella von Cacklefur is back in another fur-raising adventure!The fair has come to Mysterious Valley! Creepella is looking forward to a fun, thrilling day of rides and games with her family and friends. But one spooky rollercoaster seems to be making everyone who rides it disappear! Creepella is determined to get to the bottom of the mystery -- but what will happen when she rides the coaster herself?

Solarpunk is a type of optimistic science fiction that imagines a future founded on renewable energies. The seventeen stories in this volume are not dull utopias—they grapple with real issues such as the future and ethics of our food sources, the connection or disconnection between technology and nature, and the interpersonal conflicts that arise no matter how peaceful the world is. In these pages you'll find a guerilla art installation in Milan, a murder mystery set in a weather manipulat...