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Metaphorosis is a speculative fiction magazine.

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beautiful writing showing

engaging characters in

science fiction or fantasy settings.

We publish a new, original story every Friday, as well as an annual Best of anthology.

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Henry Szabranski was born in Birmingham, UK, and studied Astronomy & Astrophysics at Newcastle upon Tyne University, graduating with a degree in Theoretical Physics. His fiction has appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Daily Science Fiction, Diabolical Plots, Kaleidotrope, Mirror Dance, and the charitable anthology Fantasy For Good, amongst other places. He lives in Buckinghamshire with his wife and two young sons.

Please visit his website at http://www.henryszabranski.com

K.G. Anderson writes short-form speculative fiction focusing on families, secrets, and transformations. A graduate of the Viable Paradise writers workshop and Taos Toolbox, she's worked as a journalist, a book reviewer, and a writer/editor with Apple's iTunes Music Store.

Her short fiction appears in the anthologies Second Contacts, Triangulation: Beneath the Surface, The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper Stories, Triangulation: Appetites, Welcome to Dystopia, Reading 5 x 5, Space Opera Libretti, Pioneers and Pathfinders, Two Hour Transport 2019, Terra! Tara! Terror!, and Infinite Lives; and in magazines such as Galaxy's Edge, Weirdbook, Allegory, The Colored Lens, and Space and Time.

She's a proud member of the B Cubed Press writers group with stories in Alternative Truths, More Alternative Truths, After the Orange, Alternative Truths: Endgame, and Alternative Deathiness, The Protest Diaries, and Post Roe Alternatives: Fighting Back.

You can find her work online at Metaphorosis, The Drabble, Every Day Fiction, Factor Four Magazine, and Luna Station Quarterly; and on podcasts such as Far Fetched Fables, Luna Station Quarterly, and The Overcast.

Jamie Killen is a writer of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. Her short stories have appeared in numerous publications including Mythic Delirium, SQ Mag, Grievous Angel, and Drabblecast. She has also written for several fiction podcasts. You can check out her blog at https://jamieskillen.wordpress.com/ or follow her on Twitter @jamieskillen.

Premee Mohamed is a Nebula, World Fantasy, and Aurora award-winning Indo-Caribbean scientist and speculative fiction author based in Edmonton, Alberta. She is an Assistant Editor at the short fiction audio venue Escape Pod and the author of the 'Beneath the Rising' series of novels as well as several novellas. Her short fiction has appeared in many venues and she can be found on her website at www.premeemohamed.com.

B. Morris Allen is a biochemist turned activist turned lawyer turned foreign aid consultant, and frequently wonders whether it's time for a new career. He's been traveling since birth, and has lived on five of seven continents. When he can, he makes his home on the Oregon coast. In between journeys, he edits Metaphorosis magazine, and works on his own speculative stories of love and disaster. His dark fantasy novel Susurrus came out in 2017.

Find out more at www.BMorrisAllen.com and @BMorrisAllen

Andrew Leon Hudson is a technical writer by day, and is technically a writer by night as well. He's an English-born genre author currently resident in Barcelona, Spain, where he's waiting for the world to end. You can find links to his writing and other things at AndrewLeonHudson.wordpress.com. Anything else you've heard is speculation at best.

Karl Gustav Schlosser Dandenell is a first-generation Swedish American, graduate of the University of Southern California’s Professional Writing program, survivor of Viable Paradise XVI, and Full Member of the Science Fiction Writers of America.

His short fiction has appeared in such magazines as Fireside Fiction, Metaphorosis Magazine, BuzzyMag, and Perihelion SF. You can also find his work in the anthologies Strange Economics, Strange Wars, Strange Religion, and Abandoned Places.

Karl lives on an island near San Francisco with his family and cat overlords. He is fond of tea and distilled spirits.

Allison Epstein earned her M.F.A. in fiction from Northwestern University and a B.A. in creative writing and Renaissance literature from the University of Michigan. A Michigan native, she now lives in Chicago, where she works as an editor. When not writing, she enjoys good theater, bad puns, and fancy jackets. She is the author of the historical novel A Tip for the Hangman and the forthcoming Let the Dead Bury the Dead.

Rachel Kolar is the author of Mother Ghost: Nursery Rhymes for Little Monsters, as well as several science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories for adults. A graduate of Kenyon College, Rachel lives with her husband and children in the Baltimore/Washington area. When not writing, she enjoys hiking, playing overly complicated board games, and getting far too excited about Halloween.

By day, Filip Wiltgren is a mild-mannered communication officer and lecturer.

By night, he turns into a frenzied ten-fingered typist, clawing out jagged stories of fantasy and science fiction, found in lairs such as Analog, IGMS, Daily SF, and Nature Futures. His books, thoughts, email, and free stories can be found at:

www.wiltgren.com

Pauline Yates (she/her) is the Australian author of Memories Don’t Lie; a fast-paced science fiction novel inspired by her love for dark and dangerous action and adventure.

An Australian Shadows Awards finalist, her short-form horror, dark fiction, and poetry appear in publications including Black Hare Press, IFWG Publishing Australia, Redwood Press, Midnight Echo, PseudoPod, Aurealis, Tales To Terrify, Black Hart Publishing, Metaphorosis, plus others, and her AHWA winning short story, “The Best Medicine,” was translated in the Mondi Incantati series produced by Riflessi di Lunare (RiLL), Italy.

She’s a member of the Australasian Horror Writers Association (AHWA), and the Horror Writers Association (HWA), and helps to judge the Australia Shadows Awards in various categories.

On the social scene, she goes by @midnightmuser1 because she loves writing at midnight when her muse is the most volatile. She shares her writing space with her aged cat, who is determined to break the world’s oldest feline record, and a dog who is terrified of the cat. She enjoys taking photos of the sunrise—if she wakes up in time—and loves to encourage native wildlife and birds into her garden. https://paulineyates.com/

David Hammond lives and dreams in Virginia with his wife, two daughters, one dog, three rats, and a multitude of insects. During the day, he makes websites.

https://oldshoepress.com/

Mariah Montoya was born in Idaho in 1996. She writes speculative fiction and has published numerous short stories in literary magazines such as Metaphorosis, Typehouse Literary Magazine, Jersey Devil Press, and others. In 2014, she co-authored WWII veteran Gys van Beek's memoir TO NEVER FORGET.

https://mariahmontoya.weebly.com/

Erik Goldsmith has a book of short stories called "Tinker's Pain Calculator" published by Scarlet Leaf Press. His short stories have been or will be featured in Argot Magazine, Metaphorosis, Dragon's Roost Publishing, and Wavelengths Anthology. He teaches English in Texas.

Nebula Award Finalist.

Member of SF&F Writers of America.

Left one former empire only to settle in another.

Speaks German by day, Russian by night.

Writes in English.

Luke Elliott was born and raised in the suburbs of central Florida, but in his late twenties he travelled across the country with his wife and two dogs to live in Portland, Oregon, where he fell in love with the city and region. He has a B.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Florida and earned an MFA in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University. He writes mostly science fiction, fantasy, and horror, but will go wherever the inspiration takes him.

In August of 2017, he launched the Ink to Film podcast with a filmmaker co-host, where he discusses books and their film adaptations from a writer’s point of view. In late 2018, he attended the Viable Paradise writers' workshop. In between writing, podcasting, and occasional gaming, he collects and reviews quality whiskies and is always happy to pour a dram for company.

Website: www.lukeelliottauthor.com

Learn more about his podcast: www.inktofilm.com

Twitter: @LuminousLuke

M.C. Tuggle is a native North Carolinian whose ancestors arrived in the South in 1647. He majored in history and English, and completed his M.A. in English at Wake Forest University on a Wake Forest fellowship.

M.C. Tuggle’s fantasy, science fiction, and literary stories have been featured in Mystery Weekly Magazine, Kzine, Hexagon, and Metaphorosis. Novel Fox published his novella Aztec Midnight in December, 2014.

R.W.W. Greene is the author of "The Light Years" (2020), "Twenty-Five to Life" (2021), and "Mercury Rising" (2022), all from Angry Robot Books. He's a former journalist and high-school teacher who lives in New Hampshire, USA.

J. Tynan Burke writes science fiction, fantasy, and software from his apartment in New York City, in which he remains locked down, like everybody else. He also blogs about books, TV, technology, and politics. At present he is working on a novel about autonomy, set in a future San Francisco following California's schism with the rest of the country. When not writing, he can be found reading, playing video games, and hanging out with his husband and their enormous cat, Samwise.

Michael Milne is a writer from Canada. He has written speculative fiction and annoyed barristas in countries all around the world.

As well as writing fiction, Arlen Feldman is a software engineer, entrepreneur (co-founder of Cherwell Software), maker, and computer book author—useful if you are in the market for some industrial-strength door stops. Some recent stories of his appear in Metaphorosis, Ink Stains, The Literary Hatchet, and the anthologies Transcendent and The Chorochronos Archives. His website is cowthulu.com.

Earned a Bachelor of Computer Science and worked as a programmer before becoming a high school teacher in Dallas. Formerly a comics reviewer/columnist for Nerdspan.com and a video games reviewer for ThatVideoGameBlog, currently writing horror, sci-fi, and fantasy for all age groups.

Rajiv Mote is a speculative fiction writer from Chicago who wears the mask of a software professional by the light of day.

Lisa is a Texas-born, Kansas-bred writer of fantasy, science fiction and horror. She has an honorable discharge from the United States Army, a degree in chemical engineering, and twenty years’ experience as a professional engineer. Lisa currently lives in Maryland with her husband, two youngest children, father-in-law and cats. She is a member of SFWA (Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America) and the Horror Writers Association.

Geoffrey W. Cole's award-winning short fiction has appeared in such publications as Apex, Clarkesworld, EscapePod, Reckoning, and Imaginarium 2012: The Year's Best Canadian Speculative Writing. His stories have been translated into Catalan, French, Hungarian, Italian, Romanian, and Spanish, and have been produced as podcasts. He is the 2016 winner of the Premis Ictineu for best story translated into Catalan. He lives with his wonderful wife, three sons, and giant hound outside Toronto, Canada. Visit Geoff at www.geoffreywcole.com.

Chris Cornetto is a physics teacher by day and writer by night, time and coffee permitting. He likes exploring ethical questions through fantasy settings, and enjoys long walks with small dogs. In addition to his novella, "The Door in the Mountain," his works have appeared in magazines such as Metaphorosis, Wyldblood, and DreamForge. His story “At the End of All Things” was a Tangent Online recommended read, and his “Shadow and Full Dark” was a finalist for the Baen Fantasy Adventure Award.

He can be found at https://cjcornetto.wordpress.com/

Travis Wade Beaty grew up in Northeast Indiana, spent a good deal of his twenties in Los Angeles, and now resides in Washington, DC. While he’s had a great many jobs, his favorites have included acting, teaching, and being a stay-at-home dad to two girls and three cats.

Hannah Hulbert is an author from Dorset, UK. She writes fantasy and haiku when she is not chasing after her children.

Jennifer Shelby hunts for stories in the beetled undergrowth of fairy infested forests. She fishes for them in the dark space between the stars.

Alexandra Seidel is a writer and editor, a poet and dreamer. Her stories and poems of dark and fantastical things pop up here and there, a bit like mushrooms really. You can follow her on Twitter @Alexa_Seidel.

Thomas Ha is a former attorney turned stay-at-home father who enjoys writing speculative fiction during the rare moments when all of his kids happen to be napping at the same time. Thomas grew up in Honolulu and, after a decade plus of living in the northeast, now resides in Los Angeles with his family.

M. Douglas White is a former sports journalist and magazine editor, and a current marketing professional. But he’s always preferred getting lost in tales of speculative fiction to any regular job. He holds degrees in English and History, as well as an MBA with an emphasis on business