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 Lódź -- 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