Fresh-Cut Lit & More
ISSUE NO. 49
SPRING 2025
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POETRY
Read from Cleaver Magazine’s collection of published poetry gathered from each quarterly issue.
FLASH
Read from Cleaver Magazine’s collection of published flash gathered from each quarterly issue.
So Far in the Distance
by Rachel Talbot*
On the Eve of their Twenty-fourth Wedding Anniversary
by Miranda Keskes**
Three Micros
by Jeff Friedman
Moraine
by Gretta Trafficante*
FICTION
Read from Cleaver Magazine’s collection of published fiction gathered from each quarterly issue.
CREATIVE NONFICTION CONTEST SEMIFINALISTS
Read from Cleaver Magazine’s collection of published creative nonfiction gathered from each quarterly issue.
Unwriting
by Federico Escobar
The Life and Death of Elsie Mae
by Robyn Wheelock***
Thank you, Coco Chanel
by Lisa K. Buchanan
CREATIVE NONFICTION
Read from Cleaver Magazine’s collection of published creative nonfiction gathered from each quarterly issue.
VISUAL NARRATIVE
Connecticus
by Clifford Thompson
Read from Cleaver Magazine’s collection of published visual narratives gathered from each quarterly issue.
Cover Design by Karen Rile
*Cleaver Emerging Artist
**Artist of Philadelphia
***Both an Artist of Philadelphia & a Cleaver Emerging Artist