…And so summer became officially a thing. Turning points are reached, even if their significance is not fully realized just then. We’re delighted today to steer you to this selection from the archive: Karen Weyant’s “Phoebe Cates’s Bikini.”
![Karen Weyant - Phoebe Cates's Bikini [sample]](https://stormcellar.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/karen-weyant-phoebe-catess-bikini-sample.png?w=700&h=1079)
This nonfiction flash first appeared in SC 4.1. Download or purchase over here and definitely, most definitely, subscribe. Read on!
Sunday is indeed the longest day of the year (here in the north). As the ground moves into the long climb toward perihelion, keep in mind this poem from the archive by Jennifer Markell: “My Father Fell for FDR.”
![Jennifer Markell - My Father Fell for FDR [sample]](https://stormcellar.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/jennifer-markell-my-father-fell-for-fdr-sample.png?w=700&h=1079)
This poem originally appeared in SC 3.2.
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We are fans of magical thinking, and we are fans of thinking magic. Conjured from the archive today: Nicholas Miller’s telekinetic flash, “Unbending.”
![Nicholas Miller - Unbending [sample]](https://stormcellar.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/nicholas-miller-unbending-sample.png?w=700&h=1079)
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Stay up late, stay up late, stay up late, keep a torch by the bedside. In the best version of summer, much growing is done, much is learned by doing. Here’s Janeen Pergrin Rastall’s pointillistic “With the Prick of a Pin”:
![Janeen Rastall – With the Prick of a Pin[sample]](https://stormcellar.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/janeen-rastall-e28093-with-the-prick-of-a-pinsample.png?w=700&h=1079)
This poem originally appeared in SC 2.3. Here are links to buy, to download, and to subscribe. Read on!
We’re delighted to present, today, this flash fiction by Philip Kobylarz, “Preaching to the Converted”:
![Philip Kobylarz - Preaching to the Converted [sample]](https://stormcellar.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/philip-kobylarz-preaching-to-the-converted-sample.png?w=700&h=1079)
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