Today’s share thaws a bit, it seeks a bit of sun, it’s Joseph Harris’s story “Was It Good for You?“:
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It’s the witchliest, most boneyardful season, readers, and this week’s story from the latest issue really ties that all together: J. E. Reich’s “Old Country.”
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We’re delighted to announce Storm Cellar Vol. V No. 2, Fall 2016, “The Wick Offers the Wax.” Check it in: print & ebook.
FICTION
Ethan Forrest Ross – Scabs
Michelle Ross – Winkelsucher
J. E. Reich – Old Country
Jeff Ewing – Riverside
Curtis VanDonkelaar – Larry and Charlene in Three Acts
FLASH
Jefferson Navicky – El Beardo
Brenna Womer – Two Week Guarantee
Ann Stewart McBee – Not Even Max
Max Delsohn – The Aim
NONFICTION
Ana Arredondo – Wild Silent Drums
Matt Muilenburg – The Leadoff Men
Laura Bernstein-Machlay – Vessels
POETRY
Lori Lamothe – Mind Fishing
Rebecca O’Bern – Little Lamb
Ari Wolff – Any Object Can Become Memorabilia
Jaime Garcia – Rubidoux
Melissa Atkinson Mercer – Please say something different
Erica Wright – American Burial Rites; American New Year
Sara Ryan – Wooly Bones
Jesse De Angelis – Poem for Earth
John Sibley Williams – As Spectator to Unenduring Things
Sarah Ann Winn – Introducing the Midwest Amazon
IMAGES
Amy Kotthaus – Window; Above
Adam J. Gellings – Museum Maps
Christine Stoddard – Bayou Gator 8; I Dream of Elephants
David Todd McCarty – Rodeo Chico
Olivia Inwood – Spatial Transformation #8
Nicole Edine – To Life
Kristi Kohut – Velvet Agate
Jes Trejo – Shoot the Freak
W. Jack Savage – Collecting
Harry Wilson – Ileene’s Dance to the Old Year #3
Cover by Brian Michael Barbeito – A view of the fairgrounds in muted color
PLUS
Rejected Atlantic Crossings
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A strange attractor is the state the system tends toward for a variety of starting conditions. Somehow, however you start you end up in the same place. Fate can feel like a whirlpool in other words. Today, Kelsey Allen’s short fiction “Heartbeat“:
![Kelsey Allan - Heartbeat[sample]](https://stormcellar.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/kelsey-allan-heartbeatsample.png?w=700&h=1079)
This story originally appeared in SC 4.2, which is printed and ebooked at our store. Subscribe, what else can we say? Read on.
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What is inside this growing thing under all this sun heaped up on the plains? Let Tasha LeClair answer with this story, “Exploded View,” originally published in SC 4.1:
![Tasha LeClair - Exploded View[sample]](https://stormcellar.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/tasha-leclair-exploded-viewsample.png?w=700&h=1079)
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