Fresh-Cut Lit & More
ISSUE NO. 2
SUMMER 2013
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ART
Comparative Mythologies
by Rithika Merchant
Bi-Product
by Leah Koontz***
The Modernist Cabin
by Emily Steinberg**
POEMS
This Film of My Life …
by Brian Baumgart
Openings and November’s Edge
by Bill Brown
I Didn’t Know How to Spell Spondylolisthesis
by Mike Harper
Carefully Wrapped Festival of Discovery
by Rich Ives
Night Sweats
by Jen Karetnick
The Tao of Words
by Timothy Kercher
Before Going Out and An Omen
by Nissa Lee
On Beige
by Prairie Markussen
We Have to Talk and With An ‘Oon’ In It
by M. A. Schaffner
Memorial Day
by Luke Stromberg**
from Aposthropes
by Anna Strong***
Clothesline, Peonies, and Spring
by Randi Ward
FLASH
Journalism
by John Carroll
That Summer
by George Dila
Crocodile Hands
by Amber Lee Dodd*
Wash, Rinse, Repeat
by Carly Greenberg*
The Song in a Cloud
by Kate LaDew
The Straight Warp of Necessity
by Mark Mondalek
SHORT STORIES
You Were Going to Tell Me
by R.C. Barajas
Baby Pictures
by Kat Carlson
Turid
by Rachel B. Glaser
After Dinner
by Katherine Heiny
They Shared a Fish
by Eva Lomski
Daisy
by Chris Ludovici***
The Place of the Red-footed Rooster…
by Mark Lyons**
The Law of Constant Angles
by Jason Newport
Of Snakes and Stones
by Jennifer Pullen
In Very Little Time on the Nile
by Christopher X Shade
Keep the Change
by Jenny Wales Steele
The Pain
by Caleb True*
ESSAYS
My Writer’s Block
by Kathryn Hellerstein**
Dispatch from the Cat Show
by Jamie-Lee Josselyn**
Rolling Empty
by Roger Leatherwood
Beating Ploughshares into iPods
by Anya Lichtenstein*
Duckpin Bowling with Caitlin and Buffalo Bill
by Timothy Kenny
Beyond the Blue Ridge
by Grace Maselli