Fresh-Cut Lit & More ISSUE NO. 45 SPRING 2024 Want weekly writing tips, author interviews, and book reviews, plus 4 quarterly issues sent directly to your inbox? Subscribe to Cleaver! It’s free. FICTION LOOKING FOR MORE? Read from Cleaver Magazine’s collection of published fiction gathered from each quarterly issue. Baby, Sweetheart, Honeyby Katie Tonellato* Proximityby Sofi Guven*** Miguel’s Sancho by T.S. Bender*** Suspension Points by Julian Shendelman*** The Back Nine by Kim Magowan The Pod by Nicole Brogdon Exhume by Sofia Drummond-Moore* CREATIVE NONFICTION LOOKING FOR MORE? Read from Cleaver Magazine’s collection of published creative nonfiction gathered from each quarterly issue. At Elevation by Ariana Kelly* A Sudden Gust Of Wind by Darcy Lohmiller* On what used to be the R7, on what used to be the R8, on what used toby Rachel Toliver*** POETRY LOOKING FOR MORE? Read from Cleaver Magazine’s collection of published poetry gathered from each quarterly issue. Ligertown: Heraldic attitude by Susan Goslee Aquaculture Quartet by Jess Yuan Sometimes we speak to ourselves by Peter Grandbois Hospice Intake by Luke Koesters* They are Calling You and This is What They are Saying by Michael Grinthal* Question 1: How will you become your mother? by Sofia Sears*** Fairy Shrimp by Richard Parisio FLASH LOOKING FOR MORE? Read from Cleaver Magazine’s collection of published flash gathered from each quarterly issue. Salt Paint by Claudia Monpere Three Microfictions by Kathryn Silver-Hajo Angelaby Federico Escobar* How to Drink Enough Water in Wartime (Nonfiction) by Rebecca Entel A Constellation of Errors (Nonfiction)by Sophie Nunberg* All That Was Not There… (Nonfiction)by Sven Birkerts Cover Design by Karen Rile *Cleaver Emerging Artist**Artist of Philadelphia***Both an Artist of Philadelphia & a Cleaver Emerging Artist