Fresh-Cut Lit & More
ISSUE NO. 6
SUMMER 2014
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“Believers” by Elizabeth Mosier has been recognized among the Notable Essays by The Best American Essays.
ART!
Fujiko Nakaya, Fog Artist
by Myra Lotto
**Jay Pastelak, On Snapshots
Photography
***Ilana Ellis, Portraits of Friendship
Oil on Canvas
SHORT STORIES!
***Erin Peraza, The Thing About a Boat-in-a-Bottle is Nobody Steers
Geoff Peck, Tough
Jenny Wales Steele, Couch
Sidney Thompson, Is This It
Henry Margenau, It’s the Noise You Miss Most in This Giant New World
Erika Price, The Elephant
Grace Connolly, Flying
Patrick Dacey, Ballad
Max Bartlett, Birds / Nerves
Amy Burns, Hunger
POEMS!
Guest Editor’s Preface
by **Teresa Leo
**Charlotte Boulay, Scientists Have Discovered
Susan Charkes, To Catch the Ocean in Your Bucket
You Have to Point Your Bucket Toward the Shore and Hollows
**Grant Clauser, The Magician Considers his Audience
Megan Denton, Early Girl and Queen Anne’s Lace
**Leonard Gontarek, Vehicles
Kelle Groom, Story of the Moon and Solis Dies
Steve Klepetar, One of Those Worlds
Deirdre O’Connor, A Man and a Name andSelf Portrait as Autistic Sky
*Brooke Schifano, The Insides
FLASH!
Connor Towne O’Neill, Steady Moves Its Own Stillness
Melissa Sarno, Fall on Me
*Shaun Turner, Kentucky Snakes
Mercedes Lawry, The Acolytes, Liar, and Box
**Joshua Isard, Platitudes
*Devin Kelly, Growing Up
ESSAYS!
Rebecca Entel, Critter Control
**Elizabeth Mosier, Believers
*Tricia Park, On the Q