Beautifully written speculative fiction from Metaphorosis magazine. Forty-eight great science fiction and fantasy stories and an equally great serialized novella. All the stories we published in 2022. Contents From the Editor JanuaryMy Synthetic Soul - Karris Rae In the House of Geometers - David Cleden Silo - J.S. DiStefano Shades of the Sea - J.A. Prentice FebruaryA Lie in the Sand - Devin Miller Heartbeat of the Seasons - Brian Hugenbruch Freely Given - Connor Mellegers The Diary of Thisne Ome - Thomas Ouphe MarchHope on the Vine - R.E. Dukalsky Mission and Submission - Will Gwaun The Future in a Wash Basin - Erin Keating The Year of the Bright Lands - Felix Taylor AprilThe Dragon and the Unicorn - Wade Dargin The Ghosts of Daughters Possible - Amman Sabet The Last Doctor - Jonathan Louis Duckworth The Spinster and the Sea - J.C. Pillard Sturm und Clang - Sara Kate Ellis MayIndicative of Future Results - C.H. Rosenberg Medusa Rising - Christine Lucas From a Mother to Her Daughter, on the Eve of Her Wedding - Elliott Gish Midnight's Second Station - Chloe Smith JuneSince We Don't Have Wings - Gwen Whiting Time, Wolf, Emit, Flow - Anna Madden Her Spirit Animal - L.A.W. Butler Tashala's Hair - Richard Strachan JulyThe Eye of the Goddess - Samuel Parr The Lost Library - Mahmud El Sayed By the Scars Shall You Know - Daniel Ausema The Girl Who Drew the World - L.D. Oxford The Heebie-Jeebie Beam - E.C. Fuller Queen of Crows - Rachel Ayers AugustThe Hissing Trees - Ian Donnell Arbuckle The Crystal Pyramid - Mia Ram Frozen in Glass - Hope Davies SeptemberTo the Wild Sea - B. Morris Allen For the Love of Wild Things - Mande Matthews Her Last Will - Karl El-Koura Portals and Other Lost Things - Elizabeth Rankin Infinite Possibilities I - Michael Gardner OctoberProblems of the Flesh - Hamilton Perez A Xenothanatologist's Guidebook to Death Practices Among the Sapient Species of the Outer Perseus Arm of the Milky Way Galaxy - P.G. Streeter Holding On - Justen Russell Infinite Possibilities II - Michael Gardner NovemberIf Gold Runs Red - Gordon Grice Bas Relief - Joshua Grasso An Hour in the City of Lightning - A.D. Guzman Infinite Possibilities III - Michael Gardner DecemberThe Dragon's Due - Christopher Warden Through the Middle - J.B. Kish Love, Death, and the Electric Soul - Alexandra Peel Snowman - Han Whiteoak Infinite Possibilities IV - Michael Gardner