It’s hot and summer, drooling season. This essay is about knowing when — and why — to keep your mouth shut. So let’s not over-talk the intro. Donna Girouard says “Shhh”:
![Donna Girouard - Shhh [sample]](https://stormcellar.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/donna-girouard-shhh-sample1.png?w=700&h=1079)
“Shhh” appeared in Storm Cellar 2.2, our “women” theme issue (yes, with scare quotes). Download it from our store, and support our authors. Read on!
In fact the mutant is happy in a world of mutants. In fact in extreme close-up the alien turns out to be just another planet. In fact if you read this you may be launched into outer space. It’s Melissa Dias-Mandoly’s “The Fly”:
![Melissa Dias-Mandoly - The Fly [sample]](https://stormcellar.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/melissa-dias-mandoly-the-fly-sample.png?w=700&h=1079)
Orbiting our archives in the 2.2 belt, “The Fly” is gloriously in print or downloadable. Read on!
Raised from the archives like a ghost at a séance, here’s an early favorite of ours from Storm Cellar vol. II no. 1, Brendan McDonnell’s “The Prophet“:
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We all have our mobiles and portable computing devices now, don’t we? Yet there is so much that is beyond their capabilities. We’ve been taught to soap and perfume and scrub and scent, haven’t we? Yet so little of the world benefits from mediation. Originally published in SC 2.2 — the “women” issue — here’s “Picture” by Marianne Mckey: ![Marianne Mckey - Picture [sample]](https://stormcellar.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/marianne-mckey-picture-sample.png?w=700&h=1079)
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It’s May, the time when all right-thinking individuals’ minds turn to but one topic: final exams. Here’s a textbook example of amazing, by End of the Fire Cult author Angela Woodward [>>]. Originally published in SC 2.2, our first “women” theme issue (yes, with scare quotes). Here’s “Freedom”:![Angela Woodward - Freedom[sample]](https://stormcellar.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/angela-woodward-freedomsample.png?w=700&h=1079)
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![Brendan McDonnell - The Prophet[sample]](https://stormcellar.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/brendan-mcdonnell-the-prophetsample.png?w=700&h=453)
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