The inspirations and origins for our stories.
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 …
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 …
Rachel Ayers’s story “Queen of Crows” was published in Metaphorosis on Friday, 5 August 2022. There is a folkloric rhyme about counting crows or magpies, and what each number of birds signifies. Subscribe to our e-mail updates so you’ll know when new stories go live.
E.C. Fuller’s story “The Heebie-Jeebie Beam” was published in Metaphorosis on Friday, 29 July 2022. When I wrote “The Heebie-Jeebie Beam”, I had no expectations for the story. One of my New Year’s Resolutions was to stop spending so much time on a single short story. It wasn’t uncommon to spend tens of hours writing and rewriting one, so my main goal was to take a short story from concept to accepted publication in under …
L.D. Oxford’s story “The Girl Who Drew the World” was published in Metaphorosis on Friday, 22 July 2022. I remember the exact moment when the seed of this story implanted in my brain. My husband and I were driving through western Montana on the way home from backpacking in Glacier National Park. Glacier is a primordial place; you can literally see the titanic forces that shaped the earth. I looked out the passenger window in …
Daniel Ausema’s story “By the Scars Shall You Know” was published in Metaphorosis on Friday, 15 July 2022. One of the writing forums I’m on had a prompt contest. Someone had come across artwork on Deviant Art or somewhere similar that showed a cloaked character standing outside a city with massive thorns all around. The most likely intent of the image was that the character had just cut through the thorns to reach the ruins …
