Fresh-Cut Lit & More
ISSUE NO. 38
SUMMER 2022
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FICTION
Read from Cleaver Magazine’s collection of published fiction gathered from each quarterly issue.
Birthing Lessons
by Rebecca Ackermann*
The Soft Animals
by Nathan Willis
The Undercurrent
by Mariana Sabino
POETRY
Read from Cleaver Magazine’s collection of published poetry gathered from each quarterly issue.
Winter on Earth, Modern Ledas
by Sadie Shorr-Parks**
Memory Remains as Skeleton
by Mateo Perez Lara*
A Letter from my Father to Me
by Mimi Yang*
a rust chewed pipe
by Alex Wells Shapiro
Pop Song
by Matt Thomas***
FLASH
Read from Cleaver Magazine’s collection of published flash gathered from each quarterly issue.
If You Want to Be Loved, Love
by Meg Pokrass
Life Is Too Sweet for This Level of Idgaf
by Timothy Boudreau
Shadow Water (Nonfiction)
by Rosemary Jones*
Playhouse (Nonfiction)
by Tess Kelly*
Confessions of a Careless Cabbage Person
by Jamie Nielsen*
The Drive Home
by Will Musgrove*
Dr. William’s Family Fix-U Shop (Nonfiction)
by R. C. Barajas
Drunkdaddy
by Francine Witte
Decadence ’94 (Southern) (Nonfiction)
by Damian Dressick
CREATIVE NONFICTION
Read from Cleaver Magazine’s collection of published creative nonfiction gathered from each quarterly issue.
Riding West Toward the Woods
by Deb Fenwick*
Six Rants from a Nasty Yellow Girl
by Luisa Luo*
War Games
by Peter DeMarco
VISUAL NARRATIVE
Read from Cleaver Magazine’s collection of published visual narratives gathered from each quarterly issue.
War and Peace 2.0
A Visual Memoir by **Emily Steinberg
ART
Read from Cleaver Magazine’s collection of published art gathered from each quarterly issue.
To What Survived
Sculpture by Mario Loprete
Cover Design by Karen Rile
*Cleaver Emerging Artist
**Artist of Philadelphia
***Both an Artist of Philadelphia & a Cleaver Emerging Artist