Storm Cellar #10.1 Out Now!

It’s here and here it is — and merry darn turning of the calendar to you!

Storm Cellar Vol. X No. 1, winter 2021, nicknamed “Ruling Passion” → click for the delicious print and ebook editions. Pub date today 12/30/21.

Contents:

2021 FORCE MAJEURE FLASH CONTEST
1st Prize: Serrina Zou – Bái Chī
2nd Prize: Justine Teu – The Water Cycle
2nd Prize: Sherrel McLafferty – Can Elizabeth Bishop Relate?
Honorable Mention: Jax Connelly – An Incomplete Inventory of What Once Belonged to My Mother
Honorable Mention: Erica Frederick – Praisesong for Fornication
Honorable Mention: S. Erin Batiste – Congratulations, You’re Approved! We Are Pleased to Welcome You to Your New Habitation!

FICTION
Kevin Serrano Echevarría – א (Infinite Sets)
Sophie Hoss – Coney Island Sphinx
Vincent James Perrone – Moon, PA

FLASH
Kate Garklavs – Letter
S. S. Mandani – A Tentacle of Night
Edward Columbia – Full-Service Station
Luke Rolfes – Human Resources
Capella Parrish – Point Reyes Station
S.D.S. – Des Moines

POETRY
Rebecca Pelky – Kikátohkáq
Moira Walsh – Written in a thunderstorm
Caroline Taylor – Winepress
Kristi Maxwell – Totoaba
Natasha Sharma – Broken Fronds
Micah Daniel McCrotty – Finishing Mud
Terry Belew – Detours
Meg Johnson – Mostly, I’m a Menace
Mira Martin-Parker – Ancestor.com

IMAGES
CJ Nye – Cueva de la Pileta
Martins Deep – Focus
Lisa Monique Hauck – Wolf Dreams
Arinze Ndieli – Ihe 
Elder Gideon – A River Flows Through Eden
Sarah Kimmel – Detroit Ultraviolence
Zhongwen Hu – Man with pigeons
Rebecca Ledbetter – The World Is Too Quiet (cover)
Scott Brennan – Waterfall, Brooklyn, New York, 2021 (back cover)

PLUS Rejected: True Crime Documentaries  

Alexander Chubar: Unity

Today’s share asks you for understanding and a bit of human warmth, Reader, amongst all else. Here’s Alexander Chubar’s [>>] acrylic on paper Unity:

This painting originally appeared in SC #8.1, available in print and ebook formats at our storeRead on!

Guilherme Bergamini: Old Havana

Shades of a gold-edged and well-remembered time, Reader, or something darker and farther away? Today’s share for your free association is Guilherme Bergamini’s photo Old Havana:

This photograph originally appeared in SC #8.1, available in print and ebook formats at our storeRead on!

Roger Camp: Red and White Umbrella, Yerevan, Armenia

Street art is never just a picture on the wall, Reader, and we’re glad to be able to share Roger Camp’s [>>] incisive photographic print Red and White Umbrella, Yerevan, Armenia (2019) today for a moment of reflection on the social-imaginary and its context:

This image originally appeared in SC #8.1, available in print and ebook formats at our storeRead on!

Kristen Kurlich: What Can Be Done

We ask and ask, don’t we, we ponder and fret, and here’s the very manifestation in a collage by Kristen Kurlich [>>], What Can Be Done:

This image originally appeared in SC #8.1, available in print and ebook formats at our storeRead on!