Beautifully written speculative fiction from Metaphorosis magazine. Fifty-two great science fiction and fantasy stories. All the stories we published in 2019. Contents From the Editor January The Book of Regrets — M.J. Gardner Five Star Review — Alyssa N. Vaughn Two Villains, a Notebook, and a Lump of Coal — Helen French Snapped Dry, Scraped Clean — Setsu Uzumé February The Lightkeeper’s Wife — Amelia Dee Mueller The Soul Farmer’s Daughters — Kyle Kirrin The Bear Wife — Catherine George Mean Streak — L’Erin Ogle March Pleasing the Giants — Carolyn Lenz Absurd of a Feather — Amman Sabet The Noise Inside — Vaya Pseftaki L’Appel du Vide — Rajiv Moté The Color of My Home is Red Like an Apple — Evan Marcroft April A Yellow Landscape — Sarah McGill Forever and a Life — Daniel Roy With Eyes Half Open — Frances Pauli A Sacrifice for the Queen — Luke Murphy May Somewhere to be Going — Katrina Smith One for the Wounded — Phoenix Alexander In the Beating of a Wing — David Cleden The Memory Dresser — Nicholas M. Stillman Unmasked — Tomas Marcantonio June Country Whispers — Matthew Amundsen The Thousand Revolutions of Kronstadt — Pablo Valcárcel Las Vegas Museum of Space Exploration — Marilee Dahlman The Girls Who Come Back Are Made of Metal and Glass — L’Erin Ogle July One Day in Space Too Many — Michael Sherrin A Layer Thin As Breath — Thea Boodhoo Communication Breakdown — Andrew Knighton The Offshore — Josh Taylor August Never Fade Away — Claire Simpson A Bear, or a Spider, or an Elephant — Edward Ashton The Last Duty — Dawn Lloyd The Propagator — Simone Kern There is a City, He Told Me — Evan James Sheldon September Some Sun and Delilah — B. Morris Allen Favorites from Here and Abroad — Peter T. Donahue A Final Resting Place — Matt Hornsby The Guardian of Werifest Park — Carly Racklin October Darling — Kathryn Weaver Misalignment — Erik Goldsmith The Season of Withering — Lisa Short Super — Yume Kitasei November Rooks on Sundays — Jack Neel Waddell Via Dolorosa — Christine Lucas A Time for Understanding — Lisa Fox Fur and Feathers — Jess Koch The Lonely King — Gunnar De Winter December The Martian in the Greenhouse — Geoffrey W. Cole What Lies in Light — Laura Duerr The Dybbuk — Lewis Gershom Notes from the Laocoön Program — Phoenix Alexander