From the dusty roads of a future divided by civil war, a hero emerges. Clad in a silver suit, this lone rider wants to bring life to your party and wow to your wedding. He is Dancin' Hank, the Last Deejay. Narrated by the author. Published in

The Cold Inside — Vanessa Fogg

Mar 1st, 2024 29m 51s

Anna is grieving her husband’s death, and has fled to the vacation home she once shared with him, on the shores of Lake Michigan. There in the lonely woods, she meets a local legend: a ghost girl dressed all in white. Anna is initially frighten

The Bloodless Cut — Evan Marcroft

Feb 2nd, 2024 1h 7m

With only twenty minutes until the guillotine falls, a military scientist must race against time to learn how her estranged student became the world's most feared war criminal. Narrated by host Matt Gomez. Published in Metaphorosis on 02 Febr

This is How We Stay Alive — L. Chan

Jan 5th, 2024 23m 2s

In a world, years after mysterious aliens devastated the planet by stealing the bodies of one percent of the world's population, a lonely survivor needs to come to terms with loss, friendship and his own bizarre disembodied condition. Narrated

The Beast-Consul — E.C. Dorgan

Dec 29th, 2023 33m 31s

A Consul cries and cries every full moon, but can’t remember why. She pulls up a picture of a forest on a cell phone, and stares into it every night. The forest reminds her of the part of her that’s missing, and what she needs, to once again be

Useful and Beautiful Things — E. Saxey

Dec 22nd, 2023 41m 4s

At a routine house clearance, a weird object has come to light. Is it dangerous? Time to call for Frankie, an antiquarian who specialises in bizarre side-effects. Narrated by the author. Published in Metaphorosis on 22 December 2023. Find th

When Darkness Falls on Edinburgh — C.J. Erick

Dec 15th, 2023 1h

Upon the death of her mentor, young apprentice witch Gavina finds herself Edinburgh’s only defense against an imminent attack by followers of dark magic, who would open the veil between the real and ethereal worlds to allow the spirits to retur

The Final Face — Norah Lovelock

Dec 8th, 2023 35m 42s

Dia, a robot custodian, is tasked with collecting the last remaining colonists from the planet Rija. Her commission almost complete, she’s dreading the return home, and worse: a colonist is being difficult. Dia needs Alma to leave, but convinci

Visions for the Independent City of New York — Cidney Mayes

Dec 1st, 2023 29m 14s

In a futuristic New York, a young girl gains attention for her unique drawings. She is given the opportunity to rise above her station when she is offered the chance to study at a prestigious art academy, but must reconcile her new life amidst

Saving the Whales — C.J. Erick

Nov 24th, 2023 56m 18s

Oceanographer and whale researcher Niemi discovers the disappearances of great whale species are linked to secret extraterrestrial visitations. Her search for answers intensifies when this loss of cetaceans threatens not just the biological bal

Rosalind Dreams of Aersea — Travis Burnham

Nov 17th, 2023 22m 22s

We are the architects of many worlds in our minds. Are those worlds merely built on the foundation of thoughts, or are there imaginary lands existing somewhere out in the immense universe? Narrated by host Matt Gomez. Published in Metaphorosi

It Thaws in Spring — Brittany M. Perkins

Nov 10th, 2023 38m 18s

Lena is an ice child, a wraithlike being who dwells in the depths beneath a frozen pond with others like herself. She doesn’t remember a time before she lived there; she really doesn’t remember much at all. But when Lena meets a child of the su

The Fool Who Sings You To Your Grave — Katie Cervenec

Nov 3rd, 2023 32m 55s

At the next light, I pull over and hyperventilate in a Rite Aid parking lot, because I saw it as soon as the song started. Tomorrow, he's going to die. Narrated by host Matt Gomez. Published in Metaphorosis on 03 November 2023. Find the orig

Translations for a Dead Sea — Corey Farrenkopf

Oct 27th, 2023 41m 35s

Laura’s father has left her with a partially translated manuscript that will either save the world from climate disaster or speed up the coming apocalypse. She holes up in a seaside cabin to finish the work, but each night, creatures emerge fro

Hard Sunset — Sam Griffin

Oct 20th, 2023 12m 42s

How do you make peace with the inevitable end of everything? As the knowledge of an entire civilisation hangs on the edge of oblivion, the last Curator hums a jolly tune and accidentally loses a foot. Narrated by host Matt Gomez. Published in

Salaatu — Lisa Short

Oct 13th, 2023 1h 4m

Few in the Empire of Oun know of the salaatu, mysterious sea-dwelling folk from somewhere beyond the Empire's eastern northeastern shores, and fewer still know of their magic. But when the dying Emperor learns that the salaatu may have cured a

Any Day Now — K.E. Redmond

Oct 6th, 2023 33m 36s

Not everyone is thrilled by the prospect of houseguests. But what if these particular guests were coming a long way? Say, a few thousand light years? Well, they did try to warn us. Narrated by host Matt Gomez. Published in Metaphorosis on 06

The Antidote for Longing III — Karl Dandenell

Sep 29th, 2023 26m 42s

When Lars Bjornsen learns the young Empress Anna is finally pregnant after years of trying, it confirms his suspicions that the Emperor Gustavus was inadvertently poisoned by an overdose of the aphrodisiac Sweet Agony. Lars provides an antidote

She Was the Universe — Damian Stockli

Sep 22nd, 2023 47m 14s

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. Nar

Astrid Underwater — J.J. Eskelin

Sep 15th, 2023 56m 42s

One summer day, on the shore of an island in the Pacific Northwest where the wild and the otherworldly are intimately entwined, Sigun falls asleep, leaving her son playing alone by the cusp of a deep channel of water. What they encounter there

Arborify — Cadence Mandybura

Sep 8th, 2023 48m 56s

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 pr

That Lonesome, Restless Feeling — B. Morris Allen

Sep 1st, 2023 29m 31s

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 G

The Antidote for Longing II — Karl Dandenell

Aug 25th, 2023 30m 50s

Lars Bjornsen, the exiled imperial poisoner, has reunited with his old friend, Fredrik Magnusson, who now serves as physik to the imperial family. Together they race to unravel two mysteries: the sudden illness of Emperor Gustavus and the death

The Bookseller of Mars — Gaby Brogan

Aug 18th, 2023 27m 57s

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 fro

A Life of Color — N.V. Haskell

Aug 11th, 2023 38m 26s

Laura’s job with the Department of Magical Resources has left her no time or desire for human connection but when a mysterious magical infant is thrust into her care, she is forced to confront elements of her painful past. As she tries to help