The most costumed and frightened time of year is upon us, and then what is also known as All-Souls Day. This is “Preparing the Heart” by Amy Schmidt:
![Amy Schmidt - Preparing the Heart [sample]](https://stormcellar.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/amy-schmidt-preparing-the-heart-sample.png?w=700&h=1079)
“Preparing the Heart” originally appeared in Storm Cellar 3.2. Support the magazine, support the author: purchase or download. You’ll touch our hearts if you subscribe. Read on!
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)
This poem originally appeared in SC 3.1 — support the author and the magazine with a purchase or download. Subscribe if your heart beats. Read on!
Pumped from the archive like cold aquifer water, we’re happy to serve three flashes by Stephanie Dickinson: “Emily and the Hobo,” “Emily and the Mule Man,” and “Emily and the Scarlet Fever Deity.”
![Stephanie Dickinson - three flashes [sample]](https://stormcellar.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/stephanie-dickinson-three-flashes-sample.png?w=700&h=1079)
These flash pieces first appeared in Storm Cellar 3.2 — download the whole issue here, or purchase the thoroughly refreshing print edition. Subscribers see it all firsties. Read on!
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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Here now, two fine flashes lovingly restored to mint condition by Andrew Johnson: “Pulsing” and “Ring Nebula, First Entry.” Get them before they jet off to other parts:
![Andrew Johnson - Ring Nebula, First Entry [sample-2]](https://stormcellar.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/andrew-johnson-ring-nebula-first-entry-sample-2.png?w=700&h=1079)
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