Forty-six enthralling stories from the most talented science fiction, fantasy, and horror writers.
MetaStellar is an online publication focusing on science fiction, fantasy, and horror launched in September 2020, founded by a dozen speculative fiction writers, editors, and artists from around the world. Staffed entirely by volunteers, we use our generous patreon contributions to pay our original fiction authors. It’s currently free online at MetaStellar.com.
Each year it has published a compilation of its best stories of the year. This is year three.
Some of the stories -
A robotics designer has only her wits to rescue her kidnapped sister....
- "Swatted" by Devin Miller
Jennet Andrews should heed the village women's advice, so as not to repeat history....
- "The Spinning Circle" by Sarah Jackson
A monk realizes he is content in his modest monastery and refuses to travel back to his own time....
- "A Medieval Tale" by Regina Clarke
Two lovers venture into the vastness of space....
- "Reflection" by Addison Smith
A mortal falls in love with a god, and the effects of their relationship start to show....
- "The Last Thing Taken" by Claudia Wair
After Nabokov, no one has used the Overcoat. It has waited for two centuries....
- "Who Stayed in Gogol's Overcoat" by Yelena Crane
Three little girls play a game to be either the Witch, the Witch's Wife, or Soup....
- "The Witch's Wife" by Ashlee Lhamon
... and many other short tales of wonder, shock, and awe.