If the worst, most spectacular thing threatens, should we root for it? Jump-scaring us from behind the door to the archive, it’s Aaron Anstett’s “Onlookers“:
![Aaron Anstett - Onlookers [sample]](https://stormcellar.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/aaron-anstett-onlookers-sample.png?w=700&h=1079)
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Dangerously appropriate to the season and to #NationalPoetryDay, we present Sarah Sloat’s contribution to SC 4.1, “Smoking Jacket“:
![Sarah Sloat - Smoking Jacket[sample]](https://stormcellar.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/sarah-sloat-smoking-jacketsample.png?w=700&h=1079)
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Descending gently from the archive, comes now George Eklund’s “Sketch in Early Fall,”originally published in SC 3.1.
![George Eklund - Sketch in Early Fall[sample]](https://stormcellar.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/george-eklund-sketch-in-early-fallsample.png?w=700&h=1079)
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Sighted in the starry sky of the archive, here’s a poem by F.J. Bergmann for uncanny eyes: “Retrograde,” originally published in SC 2.3.
![F. J. Bergmann - Retrograde[sample]](https://stormcellar.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/f-j-bergmann-retrogradesample.png?w=700&h=1079)
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Today we’re sneaking in a prose poem from SC 2.2 by multitalented artist Justine Chan: “Mastermind.” We hereby award this poem the Best Use of Shoulderhorse Award. Seriously:
![Justine Chan - Mastermind[sample]](https://stormcellar.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/justine-chan-mastermindsample.png?w=700&h=1079)
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