It came from Mande Matthews

Mande Matthews’s story “For the Love of Wild Things” was published in Metaphorosis on Friday, 9 September 2022. The first inkling: I have long been fascinated with permaculture and food forestry, though, I fear, my thumb is blacker than night. I read once that fairies will help you in your garden, though none have bestowed their blessings on mine. Perhaps they see me as the plant murderess that I am. I’m not giving up, though, …

It came from B. Morris Allen

B. Morris Allen’s story “To the Wild Sea” was published in Metaphorosis on Friday, 2 September 2022.

September 2022

I woke up one morning with the whole central poem in my head, drawn from a dream I couldn’t remember, except that it had something to do with telepathy. Now, I recognize that I’m not a great poet, but this poem was so clear in my head that I wanted to do something with it, and I formed the story around it. Some readers have found the ending too subtle (or too opaque), but I’d note note that the world it takes place on is all about assimilation. Sarosh’s husband may not quite as completely vanished as it seems. Unfortunately, she doesn’t seem to notice.


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It came from Hope Davies

Hope Davies’s story “Frozen in Glass” was published in Metaphorosis on Friday, 26 August 2022. I first started thinking about writing a story about memory when I caught myself experiencing the phenomenon of false recollection. Someone was telling me about a picture that they’d previously shown me and, with a little prompting, I found that yes, I did remember what it looked like. Moments later, she pulled up a photograph on her phone of the …

It came from Mia Ram

Mia Ram’s story “The Crystal Pyramid” was published in Metaphorosis on Friday, 19 August 2022. I enjoy ekphrastic writing exercises (meaning writing that is based on an image or work of art) and this story is the result of one such exercise. I came across a painting of a shining, white pyramid while scrolling through a list of artworks and challenged myself to write a flash fiction about it as an exercise. That flash fiction …

It came from Ian Donnell Arbuckle

Ian Donnell Arbuckle’s story “The Hissing Trees” was published in Metaphorosis on Friday, 12 August 2022. This story is the product of a couple of characters bouncing around from different story stubs until they found each other. The messenger was originally the protagonist of an unfinished novel a few years back, which was focused on the delivery of secret messages through manipulation of the messengers’ genes. The character of Charis, in “The Hissing Trees”, started …