Beautifully written speculative fiction from Metaphorosis magazine. Beginnings, endings, and transformations. Quirky alien visitors, hand-knit wormholes, sandcastles with attitude - the best science fiction and fantasy stories from Metaphorosis magazine's seventh year. ContentsHope on the Vine - R.E. Dukalsky Indicative of Future Results - C.H. Rosenberg The Girl Who Drew the World - L.D. Oxford Holding On - Justen Russell In the House of Geometers - David Cleden Through the Middle - J.B. Kish Portals and Other Lost Things - Elizabeth Rankin A Lie in the Sand - Devin Miller Since We Don't Have Wings - Gwen Whiting A Xenothanatologist's Guidebook to Death Practices Among the Sapient Species of the Outer Perseus Arm of the Milky Way Galaxy - P.G. Streeter Snowman - Han Whiteoak Her Last Will - Karl El-Koura For the Love of Wild Things - Mande Matthews Cover art by Carol Wellart.