Fresh-Cut Lit & More
ISSUE NO. 27
FALL 2019
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ART
STILL AND YET
Photographs
by Richard Kagan
SHORT STORIES
***Natalie Gerich Brabson, Expecting Him
Leland Cheuk, 4:44
*David Priest, Constance Comes Home
Michelle Ross and Kim Magowan, Kindness Woman
VISUAL NARRATIVE
William J. Doan, Dear Family and Friends
A Visual Narrative About Depression
POETRY
Thomas Cook, Aquifer
Poul Lynggaard Damgaard, Dear city
*Benjamin Renne, Sonnet for Alexandria
Jean-Mark Sens, Besides Yourself
Meggie Royer, Silo
**Alison Hicks, How It Is
Michael Rerick, Western Spadefoot
*Sophia Friis, Biscuit Poem
Peter Leight, Psychology of the Unexpected with Friends
Dana Fang, Last Summer in SummerLand
Andrew Hamilton, How to Serve a Yellow Knife Lunar Side up, and, Wanted: The Ego
Tina Barr, Amor Fati
CREATIVE NONFICTION
*Kathryn Fitzpatrick, After Miss Columbia
**Debra Fox, Ricochet
*Misty Urban, Making Humans
FLASH
*Taleen A. Shaleh, Tiny Things
Nicole Rivas, Duncan
Julie Benesh, How to (Try to) Be Cute
Michael Zimecki, How to Boil a Child
Joshua Shaw, Two Flash Pieces
*Stephen Wack, Live Forever
Meg Pokrass, When the Fat Lady Sings
*Vivien Cao, The Passengers
*Jason Emde, Postcard from a Japanese Boxing Gym
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Cover illustrations: Recumbent Shears (1992) by Richard Kagan and “Pretending Easily Became Lying” from Dear Family and Friends by William J. Doan
*Cleaver Emerging Artist
**Artist of Philadelphia
***Both an Artist of Philadelphia & a Cleaver Emerging Artist