Science fiction

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.

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.

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.

Time once raced alongside Wolf through fields of radiant switchglass, but that bright season has faded. Now dust storms have turned the land she loved from green to the gray of aged muzzles. Time searches for answers to rid her pack's territory of the accumulating dust, and maybe, hope against hope, a way to reclaim the season of sunshine she remembers so well.
Narrated by host Matt Gomez. Published in Metaphorosis on 10 June 2022. Find the original at magazine.metaphorosis.com.

An anonymous tip sends Errant to inspect working conditions at a power station on an isolated planet. He hopes his findings will help prevent another devastating accident, and he does begin to unpack a history of corporate carelessness and human cost—but the planet's volatile alien life is stranger and more dangerous than he or anyone else has suspected...
Narrated by host Matt Gomez. Published in Metaphorosis on 27 May 2022. Find the original at magazine.metaphorosis.com.

Every family has its secrets. As her daughter marries an eligible bachelor, a devoted mother finally tells the story of her own wedding.
Narrated by the author. Published in Metaphorosis on 20 May 2022. Find the original at magazine.metaphorosis.com.

“Frank” is the unluckiest crew member on an extraterrestrial spaceship hurtling toward a rendezvous with Earth. Of the entire research team collectively tasked with studying humanity, Frank gets stuck with economics. Stocks? Bonds? 401(k)s? The very concepts are downright alien. What’s Frank to do? Reach out to a financial advisor, of course.
Narrated by host Matt Gomez. Published in Metaphorosis on 06 May 2022. Find the original at magazine.metaphorosis.com.

The first time Sam heard the Irons, she laughed like everyone else, played the LP once more out of disbelief, and then—telling herself it was for kicks—listened repeatedly until each song became an earworm. Either the girls—Mapes, Amy, and Edith — were geniuses, or they were the worst band in the world.
Narrated by host Matt Gomez. Published in Metaphorosis on 29 April 2022. Find the original at magazine.metaphorosis.com.

In a small village ravaged by the scalesick disease, Jo Park helps the faceless Doctor treat/kill the ill and burn the dead. But though he's fallen in love with the Doctor, Jo still wonders what he's hiding behind his mask, and why he won't answer certain questions.
Narrated by host Matt Gomez. Published in Metaphorosis on 15 April 2022. Find the original at magazine.metaphorosis.com.

The tale of an outcast surviving through the last days of a doomed city.
Narrated by host Matt Gomez. Published in Metaphorosis on 01 April 2022. Find the original at magazine.metaphorosis.com.