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Episodes

Friday Sep 22, 2023
She Was the Universe — Damian Stockli
Friday Sep 22, 2023
Friday Sep 22, 2023
It’s Thursday night in a Reykjavík bar. Arni, coming down from a recent loss, is hoping for a good thing. He takes a chance on a bartender’s smile, just as a series of strange, bright objects enter the solar system from interstellar space.
Narrated by host Matt Gomez. Published in Metaphorosis on 22 September 2023. Find the original at magazine.metaphorosis.com.

Friday Sep 08, 2023
Arborify — Cadence Mandybura
Friday Sep 08, 2023
Friday Sep 08, 2023
Yvonne is living her dream career: tending to clients at an arborification facility, where people can choose to turn themselves into trees. When the program is threatened by an act of vandalism, Yvonne must face her own fear and anger at the prospect of arborification being shut down for good.
Narrated by host Matt Gomez. Published in Metaphorosis on 08 September 2023. Find the original at magazine.metaphorosis.com.

Friday Sep 01, 2023
That Lonesome, Restless Feeling — B. Morris Allen
Friday Sep 01, 2023
Friday Sep 01, 2023
Bettina has always been the explorer, the collector; Madhup the homemaker and tinkerer. But now Madhup is gone, and all that's left to Bettina is memory and the alien artifacts she brought home and Madhup made sense of.
Narrated by host Matt Gomez. Published in Metaphorosis on 01 September 2023. Find the original at magazine.metaphorosis.com.

Friday Aug 18, 2023
The Bookseller of Mars — Gaby Brogan
Friday Aug 18, 2023
Friday Aug 18, 2023
In the wake of Earth's apocalypse, a hardened group of survivors has settled on Mars. Melanie lives on the fringes of this violent new society, her little sanctuary visited only by settlers coming to request rewrites of their favorite books from Earth. Until, two young boys show up one day, and she is forced to choose between her comfortable life and helping them face a looming threat.
Narrated by host Matt Gomez. Published in Metaphorosis on 18 August 2023. Find the original at magazine.metaphorosis.com.

Friday Jul 14, 2023
When the Oracle Speaks — Albert Chu
Friday Jul 14, 2023
Friday Jul 14, 2023
In the halls of the House of Hassam, a prince meets an oracle. The prince seeks to master his fate and bend fortune to his will. The oracle sits and watches.
Narrated by host Matt Gomez. Published in Metaphorosis on 14 July 2023. Find the original at magazine.metaphorosis.com.

Friday Jul 07, 2023
When The Future Calls — Salena Casha
Friday Jul 07, 2023
Friday Jul 07, 2023
All Derek wants is to survive his shifts as an antibacterialist at the Museum of Anthropological Findings and bask in the projection light of infomercial titans like Vince Offer and Joe Gray. But when someone decides to desecrate a display he’s responsible for, Derek finds himself thinking about the Old World, the New, and who he is in all of it.
Narrated by host Matt Gomez. Published in Metaphorosis on 07 July 2023. Find the original at magazine.metaphorosis.com.

Friday Jun 09, 2023
Escape to Mall B — Theodore Lowry
Friday Jun 09, 2023
Friday Jun 09, 2023
Born in a mall, raised in the food court, lured by otherworldy music to the mall's forbidden region, allured by a strange woman, enticed by a wide world only glimpsed in ads and music videos. What, if anything, exists beyond the mall's walls? To find out, a budding young musician must pay with his life.
Narrated by host Matt Gomez. Published in Metaphorosis on 09 June 2023. Find the original at magazine.metaphorosis.com.

Friday May 19, 2023
Anamnesis — Karl El-Koura
Friday May 19, 2023
Friday May 19, 2023
A hyperspace accident leaves the survivors stranded, among them a young woman disturbed by strange visions, and a man desperate to return home before his daughter wakes up to the reality they find themselves in.
Narrated by host Matt Gomez. Published in Metaphorosis on 19 May 2023. Find the original at magazine.metaphorosis.com.

Friday May 05, 2023
The Diamond Noose — Ramez Yoakeim
Friday May 05, 2023
Friday May 05, 2023
Along with the rest of humanity, Laila is struggling to survive Earth's Nuclear Winter, when her boss hands her an assignment she can't refuse. To help the Angels, and keep the job she desperately needs, she has to swallow her many resentments and grievances and set out on a journey through humanity's writhing underbelly. Along the way she is forced to reassess her views of Earth's overlords, humanity's destiny, and ultimately her own.
Narrated by host Matt Gomez. Published in Metaphorosis on 05 May 2023. Find the original at magazine.metaphorosis.com.

Friday Apr 14, 2023
Trapped in Memory — Dan Le Fever
Friday Apr 14, 2023
Friday Apr 14, 2023
Born to follow the all-knowing Regulation, Seyra, a crewmember of the generational spaceship Last Train, manages to cast off her shackles and throw into question all they have ever known. Kehvan, one of the ship's pilots, is now forced to find the answers before it is too late for both of them.
Narrated by host Matt Gomez. Published in Metaphorosis on 14 April 2023. Find the original at magazine.metaphorosis.com.