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  

Bex Saunders: That Sinking Feeling

The mood might be S.A.D. or it might be bright with glad yule fires, it could be anything, really, if we put a sale sticker on it, but today we have that one true face to face up to, as perfectly captured by Bex Saunders’ [>>] That Sinking Feeling:

This photo 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!

KJ Hannah Greenberg: Been There Done That

The traces we leave behind, dear Reader, our variation out of the past. The oldest footsteps in the Americas are 23,000 years young as of this writing. Here’s KJ Hannah Greenberg’s Been There Done That:

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