Storm Cellar #5.2 OUT NOW

We’re delighted to announce Storm Cellar Vol. V No. 2, Fall 2016, “The Wick Offers the Wax.” Check it in: printebook.

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Contents

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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If you’d like to write for SC, get in over here. Read on!

Sarah Ann Winn: Introducing the Midwest Amazon

Readers, today of all days is #NationalPoetryDay and we’re here with a preview from the next issue (due Monday!) (!!!) — it’s Sarah Ann Winn’s “Introducing the Midwest Amazon”:

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This one’s gonna be great, you guys. (!!!!!!)

We’re also open for submissions for an issue to feature authors who happen to be women or genderqueer (in the broadest sense). Full guidelines, submission portal. Read on!

Marvin Shackelford: Wet Tracks Far from a Crossing

A whirlwind miniaturized or contained in the human form is no less than a swath of destruction waiting to happen. Spun up from the archive is Marvin Shackelford’s “Wet Tracks Far from a Crossing”:

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This poem originally appeared in SC 4.2. This one here (or download); check out our latestsubscribe and we will bering your fingers with ink torii. Read on.

P.S. We’re seeking staff readers, especially for flash-and-fiction. Check it; then email us. 

Devon Wootten: [What could eat her up?]

What is the best poetry? It is like a best-on-best tournament, and one may construct the very best from the limbs and organs of the best published poems of the year? Devon Wootten‘s Coincidence Machine project produces an answer, [What could eat her up?]. (He’s also behind wikipoesis.com.) Plucked from the archive:

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This poem originally appeared in SC 4.2. Print and ebooks over thisaway. We like subscribers, it’s just how we’re built. All, oh frankensteinian’d all, read on!

p.s. have we mentioned we’re looking for readers?

Jim Davis: two poems

The rubber plant, by the bay window looking over the canal that wears illegible graffiti and transmission parts like a quilt, is perking. This week’s share comes from Jim Davis (no not that one): “Standard” and “Please Do Not Use This Toilet (If Possible).”

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These poems originally appeared in SC 4.1. More print issues/ebook editions here. Breathe outside air today, read on!