Beautifully written speculative fiction from Metaphorosis magazine. Fifty-two great science fiction and fantasy stories. All the stories we published in 2018. Contents From the Editor January The Seer at Sunset Hills Shopping Plaza - Katherine Perdue Jewel/Gem Offering - Emily McIntyre This Side of the Wall - Michael Gardner Memory is a Rumor - Yaroslav Barsukov February Love in its Heart - David Z. Morris Cheminagium - David Gallay Hold This Star for Me - Mark David Adam Hishi - David A. Gray March Always Dawn to Forever Night - Luke Elliott Any Old Disease - Dimitra Nikolaidou Velaya, the Dreaming City - Beston Barnett Switch - Lisa Clark The Three Sisters - K.D. Azariah-Kribbs April Bye Bye Skinny Cow - Hamilton Perez Cathedra - M.C. Tuggle The Cypress and the Rose - Sandi Leibowitz Koehl's Quality Impressions - Tim McDaniel May Calm Folk, Come Forth - Adan Berkowitz On the Scales of Dragons - Kathryn Yelinek Suzy's Friend - David Hammond Chasing the Light - Gloria Wickman June The Foaling Season - Samuel Chapman Nobody's Daughters and the Tree of Life - L'Erin Ogle Strangers in the Night - David Whitaker The Tapestry - A.C. Worth The Stars Don't Lie - R.W.W. Greene July Time's Arrow - C. Heidmann The Forest of New People - Thom Connors The Dream Diary of Monk Anchin - Felicity Drake It Feels Like Déjà Vu - Phong Quan August The Bagel Shop Owner's Nephew - J. Tynan Burke Upon the Fallen Leaves of the Gingko Tree - Mads Alvey Just a Fire - A. Martine All the Colors I Cannot See - L'Erin Ogle Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost - Douglas Anstruther September Graven Image - B. Morris Allen The Yarnball Woman - Michael Milne Familiar in Her Angles - E.A. Brenner Combustion - Kai Hudson October Reproduction in a Closed Loop - Andrew M LeBlanc Nana Naoko's Garden - Michael Gardner Twins - Gregory Kane The Astronaut Tier - Jonathan Laidlow November The Little G-d of ¿ód¿ - Evan Marcroft A House on the Volga - Filip Wiltgren When the Last Friend is Gone - Tris Matthews Sorry, Sorry, Sorry and I Love You - L'Erin Ogle Graveyard - Arlen Feldman December Of Hair and Beanstalks - William Condon I Will Go Gently - Susan McDonough-Wachtman Family Tree - Lindsey Duncan Cinders and Snow - Kathryn Yelinek