We all fall one time or another, and who can blame us for keeping our good humor and re-trying the impossible? Let us absorb, therefore, Christopher James’ “Wisdom“:
![Christopher James - Wisdom[sample]](https://stormcellar.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/christopher-james-wisdomsample.png?w=700&h=1079)
“Wisdom” first appeared in Storm Cellar 2.3. Get your sweet hands on sweet literature with a purchase or download. Subscribers keep us warm at night. Read on!
Pumped from the archive like cold aquifer water, we’re happy to serve three flashes by Stephanie Dickinson: “Emily and the Hobo,” “Emily and the Mule Man,” and “Emily and the Scarlet Fever Deity.”
![Stephanie Dickinson - three flashes [sample]](https://stormcellar.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/stephanie-dickinson-three-flashes-sample.png?w=700&h=1079)
These flash pieces first appeared in Storm Cellar 3.2 — download the whole issue here, or purchase the thoroughly refreshing print edition. Subscribers see it all firsties. Read on!
Here now, two fine flashes lovingly restored to mint condition by Andrew Johnson: “Pulsing” and “Ring Nebula, First Entry.” Get them before they jet off to other parts:
![Andrew Johnson - Ring Nebula, First Entry [sample-2]](https://stormcellar.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/andrew-johnson-ring-nebula-first-entry-sample-2.png?w=700&h=1079)
These flashes originally appeared in Storm Cellar 3.2. Get in on this action: subscribe, or click for our store. Read on!
Proposition: life is the rough contact between ego and world. Proposition: the automatic teller machine is a microscale synecdoche of computer-age alienation. Proposition: we effing love listicles. Forthcoming in SC 4.1:
![Jennifer Yu - Things Olivia Would Like to Avoid (if Possible)[sample]](https://stormcellar.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/jennifer-yu-things-olivia-would-like-to-avoid-if-possiblesample.png?w=700&h=1079)
Creative nonfiction, this essay from the forthcoming Storm Cellar 4.1 [pre-release ebook/preorder print] homes in on the sharp, vibrating edge of living through one’s child. It’s Elizabeth Reed’s “Sitting for the Photo”:
![Elizabeth Reed - Sitting for the Photo [sample]](https://stormcellar.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/elizabeth-reed-sitting-for-the-photo-sample.png?w=700&h=1079)
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