This week our share is Leah Christianson’s touching story “Call Your Daughter.” Forward this to your dad. Or your mom. Or your daughter. Or whoever needs it.
![Leah Christianson - Call Your Daughter[sample]](https://stormcellar.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/leah-christianson-call-your-daughtersample.png?w=700&h=1079)
This story originally appeared in SC 4.1. Get your very own copy from our store. Read on!
Tag: short fiction
Steve Coughlin: Ernest Medley’s Situation
Today we’re delighted to pull up from the archive this fiction, which may or may not remind us of one of our New Year’s resolutions, by Steve Coughlin: “Ernest Medley’s Situation.”
![Steve Coughlin - Ernest Medley's Situation [sample]](https://stormcellar.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/steve-coughlin-ernest-medleys-situation-sample.png?w=700&h=1079)
This story originally appeared in SC 3.2. Support the author and the arts by purchasing or downloading here. For more delightful fiction, subscribe. Keep warm, readers and: read on!
Pushcart Nominees 2015
Dear Readers, about this time each year the Pushcart nomination season offers an opportunity to honor a few of our authors. These choices are tough, as we love all the work we publish, and everyone on the team helped out. For the Pushcart Prizes XLI we nominate:
- Emily Cornell du Houx – “Sinkhole Tourism” (short fiction, #4.3)
- Harmony Neal – “Phoenix” (short fiction, #4.2)
- Caleb Tankersley – “We Have a City” (flash, #4.3)
- Christine Bettis – “Lots” (poetry, #4.3)
- Sea Sharp – “The Tall Grass Shuffles” (poetry, #4.2)
- Jen Coleman – “Dreaming Your Silence as a Postal Service Error, 2005” (poetry, #4.3)
Check out issues 4.3 and 4.2, and get your copies here. We’d be falling down on the job if we didn’t mention you can subscribe (& order gift subscriptions) thisaway. Also and too, share your work. Read on!
Lisa Balvanz: Deleted Scenes
We here have always had a thing for the stories of stories, the causes of stories, the interpenetration and interdependence of stories. Unboxed from the archive today we slyly present Lisa E. Balvanz’s shutter-flashed fiction, “Deleted Scenes“:
![Lisa E. Balvanz – Deleted Scenes [sample]](https://stormcellar.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/lisa-e-balvanz-e28093-deleted-scenes-sample.png?w=700&h=1079)
This short story originally appeared in Storm Cellar 2.3. Pick up a print copy & download it over here; subscribe like your life is missing something; and — read on!
Harmony Neal: Phoenix
“Swimsuit season” sounds like something Elmer Fudd cleans his shotgun for. And we have learned from an early age to climb the social ladder, haven’t we? These things are connected by the appetites. A solution comes now in SC 4.2, Harmony Neal’s surgically effective “Phoenix“:
![Harmony Neal - Phoenix [sample]](https://stormcellar.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/harmony-neal-phoenix-sample.png?w=700&h=1079)
This story appears in the latest, greatest issue of Storm Cellar — purchase in print, download, or subscribe (you’ll forget you’re hungry, we promise). Read on!
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