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Noah Farberman – Grown Ass Person

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Today’s share was — is, is — an honorable mention in our 2020 flash contest, and we’re still feeling all adult about it. Here’s Noah Farberman’s “Grown Ass Person”:

This flash originally appeared in SC #9.1, available in print and ebook formats in our store.

Michelle Spokes – Suburban Amsterdam

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Today we’re experimenting with a fabulous flash by Michelle Spokes, “Suburban Amsterdam.”

This flash originally appeared in SC #8.3, available in print and ebook formats in our store.

Parker Young: Van Gogh at Work

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Today a tax day special for USAians, a flash from Parker Young: “Van Gogh at Work.”

This flash originally appeared in SC #8.2, available in print [sold out] and ebook format in our store.

Issue #10.2 is OUT NOW!

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Storm Cellar Vol. X No. 2, autumn ’22, nicknamed “Hobby Horse” → click for the delicious print and ebook editions. Contents links to PDF samples, [>>] for author site.

Contents

FICTION
David Busboom [>>] – The Prairie Is My Garden
Mandy-Suzanne Wong [>>] – Café Crypsis

FLASH
MAP – Knot
Carolyn Oliver [>>] – Nyctinasty
Ali Abid – The Mosque in Those Days
DM O’Connor [>>] – Round, Racy, Nut & Plum
JWGoll – Exodus

CREATIVE NONFICTION
Philip James Shaw [>>] – for when the ninths of a voice been a sacrifice
Theresa Lin [>>] – The Cult of Togetherness

POETRY
Tyra Douyon [>>] – The Gathering
Cecilia Díaz Gómez translated by Kiran Bhat [>>] – Ch’Ayem Ta Sjol Ko’ontik [I’m on My Way Walking]
Natalie Louise Tombasco [>>] – Fever Dream of Allen Ginsberg
Martha Zweig – Serpent
Rigel Portales [>>] – The Usual Barbershop Is Closed and I Need to Be Cut
Danielle McMahon – Madonna of the Rocks
Stephen C. Middleton – Frail Intuition (Under Assault)
Leigh Lucas [>>] – I’ll start Dear Vickie (use pen, be breezy)
Ranney Campbell  – End with Past Tense
Naomi Kanakia [>>] – Before Sleep

IMAGES
Lesley Finn [>>] – The Gardeners
Marija Mičić – Moonlight
Melody Serra [>>] – Stained Glass
Sijia Ma [>>] – Desire
Jean Wolff [>>] – Blue Rod Painting 3
Mario Loprete [>>] – FUCKOVID
Erick Buendia [>>] – The Champ
Dylan Willoughby [>>] – Rose

PLUS
Rejected Deadlines, cover by Maria Svartvadet Jakobsen [>>] – Growth

Winners of the 2022 Force Majeure Flash Contest Announced!

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We’re proud to announce the winners of the 2022 Force Majeure Flash Contest! (It’s been a year. We know. And we found some hopeful fires amidst the fog.) Our top flashes and honorable mentions:

  • 1st Prize: “Et-Lingua-Ligatum” by Tessa Swackhammer — a perspectival periscope, a linguistic tour de force, an empathetic pipe bomb.
  • 2nd Prize: “Assurance” by Mike Yunxuan Li — a still life, a wholesome breathing space, a threat delivered with a smile is a kind of hug.
  • 2nd Prize: “A History of Timber in the Valley of Lanape Wihittuck, later Nassau, Prince Hendrick’s, Charles, South River, then de la Warr anglicized Delaware” by Julian Mithra — the hedge maze of ivy and strangling figs has become sentient, it wants your blood, why did you promise it blood?
  • Honorable Mention: “I Really Wasn’t Having the Time of My Life, but Apparently My Dance Card Has His Name on It” by Erica Sharlette — a joke inside a joke inside a sensational anecdote.
  • Honorable Mention: “‘Call Me Up Anytime, Bro’” by Mike Itaya — a one-act play at the El station, a battery-powered boombox with a burnt mixtape of George Michael hits jammed inside.
  • Honorable Mention: “Three Belts” by Jill Bronfman — now you see.
  • Honorable Mention: “Games” by Sara Fetherolf — a poem or a dream or a memory of a DALL-E exercise in self-knowledge all in one bucket.
All will appear in Storm Cellar vol. 11 no. 1, coming this winter.
This year’s contest was extra-exciting because of the hundreds of inventive, dynamic entries we received. Our entrants made it a really tough call. So thank you to all of them for participating! We couldn’t do it without them.
Next year’s contest opens January 1, 2023!