Fresh-Cut Lit & More
Issue No. 38 • SUMMER 2022
FEATURING
† Rebecca Ackermann, Birthing Lessons
Nathan Willis, The Soft Animals
Mariana Sabino, The Undercurrent
† Lara Markstein, No Name Island
† Maggie Mumford, Intuition
Gemini Wahhaj, Urgent
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† Mitchell Untch, Twin I, Twin II
Sadie Shorr-Parks, Winter on Earth, Modern Ledas
† Mateo Perez Lara, Memory Remains as Skeleton
† Mimi Yang, A Letter from my Father to Me
Alex Wells Shapiro, a rust chewed pipe
† Matt Thomas, Pop Song
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Meg Pokrass, If You Want to Be Loved, Love
Timothy Boudreau, Life Is Too Sweet for This Level of Idgaf
† Rosemary Jones, Shadow Water Nonfiction
† Tess Kelly, Playhouse Nonfiction
† Jamie Nielsen, Confessions of a Careless Cabbage Person
† Will Musgrove, The Drive Home
R. C. Barajas, Dr. William’s Family Fix-U Shop Nonfiction
Francine Witte, Drunkdaddy
Damian Dressick, Decadence ’94 (Southern) Nonfiction
Do you write flash? Try our SUMMER LIGHTNING ’22 FLASH CONTEST FOR FICTION AND NONFICTION. $500 First Prize; $250 Second Prize; $100 Third Prize.
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† Deb Fenwick, Riding West Toward the Woods
† Luisa Luo, Six Rants from a Nasty Yellow Girl
Peter DeMarco, War Games
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War and Peace 2.0
A Visual Memoir by Emily Steinberg
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To What Survived
Sculpture by Mario Loprete
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Cover Design by Karen Rile
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