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Episodes
Friday Jun 10, 2022
Time, Wolf, Emit, Flow — Anna Madden
Friday Jun 10, 2022
Friday Jun 10, 2022
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.
Friday May 27, 2022
Midnight’s Second Station — Chloe Smith
Friday May 27, 2022
Friday May 27, 2022
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.
Friday May 20, 2022
From a Mother to Her Daughter, on the Eve of Her Wedding — Elliott Gish
Friday May 20, 2022
Friday May 20, 2022
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.
Friday May 06, 2022
Indicative of Future Results — C.H. Rosenberg
Friday May 06, 2022
Friday May 06, 2022
“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.
Friday Apr 29, 2022
Sturm und Clang — Sara Kate Ellis
Friday Apr 29, 2022
Friday Apr 29, 2022
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.
Friday Apr 15, 2022
The Last Doctor - Jonathan Louis Duckworth
Friday Apr 15, 2022
Friday Apr 15, 2022
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.
Friday Apr 01, 2022
The Dragon and the Unicorn - Wade Dargin
Friday Apr 01, 2022
Friday Apr 01, 2022
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.
Friday Mar 25, 2022
The Year of the Bright Lands - Felix Taylor
Friday Mar 25, 2022
Friday Mar 25, 2022
A community lives in a world without sunlight on the edge of an abyss, and worship an entity known as the Personage. A young girl, Elin, is led into the abyss by a strange little boy and makes a discovery about the origins of her way of life.
Narrated by host Matt Gomez. Published in Metaphorosis on 25 March 2022. Find the original at magazine.metaphorosis.com.
Friday Mar 11, 2022
Mission and Submission - Will Gwaun
Friday Mar 11, 2022
Friday Mar 11, 2022
Amir has dreamed of setting foot on a new world since childhood, but reaching it might mean losing everything that would make finding it worthwhile. On a centuries-long journey into the blackness of space, his love and commitment are stretched to the breaking point by the demands of ambition.
Narrated by the author. Published in Metaphorosis on 11 March 2022. Find the original at magazine.metaphorosis.com.
Friday Feb 18, 2022
Freely Given - Connor Mellegers
Friday Feb 18, 2022
Friday Feb 18, 2022
Ev's world is built around gifts, who they come from and who they are given to. When Ev receives an unexpected gift that changes their life, they are suddenly forced to consider what accepting it may cost them.
Narrated by the author. Published in Metaphorosis on 18 February 2022. Find the original at magazine.metaphorosis.com.