Long days, long days. Resurrected from the archive, Joan Colby’s “John the Baptist of the Summer Solstice“:
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This work first appeared in SC 2.1. Support the authors of Storm Cellar by downloading or purchasing a print copy from our store. Check out the latest issue thisaway, and get in on the action over here. Read on!
It’s hot and summer, drooling season. This essay is about knowing when — and why — to keep your mouth shut. So let’s not over-talk the intro. Donna Girouard says “Shhh”:
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“Shhh” appeared in Storm Cellar 2.2, our “women” theme issue (yes, with scare quotes). Download it from our store, and support our authors. Read on!
These last months have been amazing. More issues sold and downloaded, and more submissions, than ever before. You, our audience, fan base, aspiring publicants: thank you!
Olly olly oxen, readers: it is a proven fact (void where prohibited) that buying the latest issue of Storm Cellar improves your love life, pore size, and chances of being rad forever.
We don’t slow down in the summer. If anything, we pick up the pace. So get in quick, submitters — we’re finalizing issue 4.1 even as we type, because danged if we haven’t been reading just a crazy flood of subs.
In fact the mutant is happy in a world of mutants. In fact in extreme close-up the alien turns out to be just another planet. In fact if you read this you may be launched into outer space. It’s Melissa Dias-Mandoly’s “The Fly”:
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Orbiting our archives in the 2.2 belt, “The Fly” is gloriously in print or downloadable. Read on!
Raised from the archives like a ghost at a séance, here’s an early favorite of ours from Storm Cellar vol. II no. 1, Brendan McDonnell’s “The Prophet“:
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