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Episodes
Friday Oct 28, 2022
Infinite Possibilities II — Michael Gardner
Friday Oct 28, 2022
Friday Oct 28, 2022
A mystery USB leads Adrian to a cabin where he finds an odd book with schematics for a machine. Adrian, being good with his hands, starts to build, uncertain about the machine’s purpose, but excited about what it might do. At the same time, his faith in his wife deteriorates.
Narrated by host Matt Gomez. Published in Metaphorosis on 28 October 2022. Find the original at magazine.metaphorosis.com.
Friday Oct 21, 2022
Holding On — Justen Russell
Friday Oct 21, 2022
Friday Oct 21, 2022
The space elevator sprouted just over the horizon, always visible, ever out of reach. Even Laika knew the risk; a dream is a dangerous thing to chase.
Narrated by host Matt Gomez. Published in Metaphorosis on 21 October 2022. Find the original at magazine.metaphorosis.com.
Friday Oct 14, 2022
Friday Oct 14, 2022
A xenothanatologist embarks on a star-spanning quest to learn about alien species' attitudes toward death. When we look to the stars, what can we learn about our own mortality? How can the strange and fantastical creatures of other worlds help us come to grips with our own losses?
Narrated by host Matt Gomez. Published in Metaphorosis on 14 October 2022. Find the original at magazine.metaphorosis.com.
Friday Sep 30, 2022
Infinite Possibilities I — Michael Gardner
Friday Sep 30, 2022
Friday Sep 30, 2022
Adrian receives a USB drive in the mail that contains a couple of hours of footage of a cabin, nothing else. He’s convinced the footage holds the key to something important, or at least something more interesting than the novocaine life he’s leading with a wife that may not still love him.
Narrated by host Matt Gomez. Published in Metaphorosis on 30 September 2022. Find the original at magazine.metaphorosis.com.
Friday Sep 23, 2022
Portals and Other Lost Things — Elizabeth Rankin
Friday Sep 23, 2022
Friday Sep 23, 2022
According to everyone, Sylvie was doing all the things she should be as a retired, widowed grandmother. So she had no idea how she managed to knit portals to other spaces in space, and maybe time, into her first scarf. Those things don't happen to people like her, and deciding what to do about them may be the hardest choice she's had to make.
Narrated by host Matt Gomez. Published in Metaphorosis on 23 September 2022. Find the original at magazine.metaphorosis.com.
Friday Sep 16, 2022
Her Last Will — Karl El-Koura
Friday Sep 16, 2022
Friday Sep 16, 2022
When his wife dies, an elderly man named Toqs Hingi realizes that her funeral instructions were never received by the efficient and mostly automated system that runs their lives, and his wife Serene will soon be cremated against her wishes. Although a recluse, Toqs must leave his home to make sure Serene’s desire for burial is honored. Join him in this bittersweet science fiction tale as Toqs discovers a hidden truth about his wife’s intentions, and is reminded of the depths of their love for one another.
Narrated by host Matt Gomez. Published in Metaphorosis on 16 September 2022. Find the original at magazine.metaphorosis.com.
Friday Sep 02, 2022
To the Wild Sea — B. Morris Allen
Friday Sep 02, 2022
Friday Sep 02, 2022
Sarosh is a businesswoman. Her husband, who claims to be a telepath, has been conducting research on a lonely, nameless planet, but now he's missing, leaving Sarosh to try and pick up the pieces.
Narrated by the author. Published in Metaphorosis on 02 September 2022. Find the original at magazine.metaphorosis.com.
Friday Aug 12, 2022
The Hissing Trees — Ian Donnell Arbuckle
Friday Aug 12, 2022
Friday Aug 12, 2022
A messenger arrives from a distant land, bearing strange secrets encoded in his very genes. Only the village doctor has any hope of retrieving the message. But what will she unleash if she does?
Narrated by host Matt Gomez. Published in Metaphorosis on 12 August 2022. Find the original at magazine.metaphorosis.com.
Friday Jul 29, 2022
The Heebie-Jeebie Beam — E.C. Fuller
Friday Jul 29, 2022
Friday Jul 29, 2022
Bingo-bango, I thought. This is exactly what I need. And I should have remembered then that I was never a good thinker.
Narrated by host Matt Gomez. Published in Metaphorosis on 29 July 2022. Find the original at magazine.metaphorosis.com.
Friday Jul 08, 2022
The Lost Library — Mahmud El Sayed
Friday Jul 08, 2022
Friday Jul 08, 2022
A human once said, ‘If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need’. Well, I am a Library and I have a garden, and I very much don’t. What am I missing? My humans, of course.
Narrated by host Matt Gomez. Published in Metaphorosis on 08 July 2022. Find the original at magazine.metaphorosis.com.