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