Luke Rolfes: Running Time

Just in time for the hottest days, let’s think about cross country, marathoning, and their offspring with Luke Rolfes in “Running Time”:

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This CNF piece first appeared in SC 4.3. Purchase print & ebook copies here, & subscribe for more like this, but delivered. Run if you want, but ever read on.

Diane Payne: 10 Clues That It Is Over, or Should Be Over

We need a lot of clues, perhaps a lot of true experience and judgement, and we’re always giving it to others… Here’s us plumping for the wry take… Diane Payne’s “10 Clues That It Is Over, or Should Be Over”:

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Issue 6.1 Out Now!

Dearest readers, we’re so pleased to present Storm Cellar Vol. VI No. 1, Spring 2017, nicknamed “Override Defaults” in printastic print and enormous ebook editions.

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Featuring fiction by Kate Myles and Lauren Kocher, flash by Meredith Maltby (Jackal), C.B. Auder, Jan Stinchcomb, Amanda Haag, Sierra Bellows, Tara Isabel Zambrano, Rosanna Staffa, and Helen Hofling, nonfiction by Lindsey Wilson (Constellation), Amber N., Dacia Price, and Jennifer Kulbeck, poetry by Mack Carlisle, Leah Noble Davidson (two poems), Rachel Jamison Webster, Lauren Sanderson, Julian Mithra, Riel Sturchio, Cath Nichols, Ann-Marie Blanchard, Carolyn Guinzio, and B. Woods, and images by Susan Stamm Evans, Anna Lea Jancewicz, Susan Yount,
Andrea Fuhrman, Katherine Rudin, KJ Hannah Greenberg, France Corbel (Clothes Have No Gender), and Lilian Crooks, plus Rejected Behaviors.

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Pushcart Nominations 2016

We’re pleased to announce our Pushcart Prize nominations for 2016:

Laura Bernstein-Machlay: Vessels

Our many (many) decorative gourds’ll serve to hold tiny scratched and puff-paint’d bits of memory as long as they last, no? Yes and today, we’re sharing Laura Bernstein-Machlay’s essay “Vessels” from the latest issue:

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Purchase the issue in print and ebook form, or subscribe to be delivered the latest. We’re seeking contributors for the next issue who happen to be women or genderqueer. Read on!