Fresh-Cut Lit & More
ISSUE NO. 8
WINTER 2014
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“Marked” by William Bradley has been recognized among the Notable Essays of 2015 by The Best American Essays
Graphic Narrative!
Heinz Insu Fenkl, Dr. Zauze’s Xylophone
Art!
R.C. Barajas, Of Pinholes & Peepshows
Pinhole Photography
**Mimi Oritsky, Inside Rex
Oil on Linen
**Julianna Foster, Staring at the Sea
Digital Photography
Short Stories!
Emilia Rodriguez, Silkworm
***Annika Neklason, The Herd
***Alina Grabowski, Bergamot
Becky Tuch, Orphans
*Sanaë Lemoine, The Slow Acts
*Charles Ramsay McCrory, No-Bake
**David Hallock Sanders, If You Do Not Know
Emanuel Melo, The Weekly Visit
**John Shea, Figures of Speech
Poems!
Harmony Button, Nativity
*Amanda Silberling, Variations on Second Children
Robert Lunday, Excerpts from “Paradise, Attained by Touch”
**Julia Bloch, Apology to Los Angeles
F. J. Bergmann, Perfect Discontinuity
Gabrielle Campagnano, Apples on the Cutting Board
Jesse Castaldi Keen, Notes on Constancy
**John Middlebrook, Whispers
John Goodhue, Composure
Paige Riehl, Things that Cannot Die
Samantha Barrow, Vanish
Flash!
GennaRose Nethercott, Skin
Chris Vola, The Terrible Softness of Tongues
*Charlie Keys Bohem, Your Royal Highness
Heather Bourbeau, Meliai
*Ingrid Claire Wenzler, A Replacement
Jason Newport, Sharpie
Melissa Ostrom, Emergencies, in the Event of
Neil Boyack, Christmas Lights in a Town with a Population of 500
Nick Kolakowski, Little Orestes
Paul Enea, 1973 and 1976
Ron Burch, We are Alive as Long as the Snow is Deep
William Alton, A Rain of Sound
Essays!
William Bradley, Marked
**Angelique Stevens, If Nothing Changes
Colleen Davis, Polar Bears
Andrea Jarrell, Lost
**Sharon White, Panic
J. J. Anselmi, Atrophy