Inner Workings: mental fragility and resilience in the outer spaces

From the Metaphorosis Library Collection, an anthology of science fiction and fantasy stories by authors coping with mental health challenges. These are not necessarily stories about mental health, but stories by authors whose challenges inform their writing.

Life can be hard enough sometimes, without loading on experiences that many others don’t even understand. But per aspera ad astra, as the saying goes. These are stories by authors who’ve dealt with emotional, mental, or psychological concerns and whose lives and writing are richer for what they’ve learned.

This collection of 16 stories is drawn from Metaphorosis magazine’s first nine years of publication. They include stories of hair that holds memories, a planet that’s finally had enough of humans, drugs that make you sad, and a whole new way of applying to college by grappling iron, among many other ideas!

Contents

• Communication Breakdown - Andrew Knighton
• The Waves In Which We Drown - Rubella Dithers
• The Memory Dresser - Nicholas M. Stillman
• Rooks on Sundays - Jack Neel Waddell
• Forever and a Life - Daniel Roy
• Country Whispers - Matthew Amundsen
• The Hissing Trees - Ian Donnell Arbuckle
• The Unlucky Few Who Must Not Cast - J. Tynan Burke
• A Song Without a Voice - Brad Preslar
• The Big S - David Hammond
• Through the Middle - J.B. Kish
• The Frozen Generation - Jacob Coffin
• My Little Sister Brigid - Harold R. Thompson
• Gatekeepers - Douglas DiCicco
• Catching College - Maggie Slater
• Shortcut to Happily Ever After - Ben Wan