Fresh-Cut Lit & More
Issue No. 22 • SUMMER 2018
INTERMEDIA
Francesco Levato, Active Conflict Zones
GRAPHIC NARRATIVE
**Emily Steinberg, Paused
POETRY
*Elaine Cannell, the second motion
*Natalie Kawam, To Each Her Own
Jonathan Louis Duckworth, Late Night Thoughts
Hussain Ahmed, Execution
Cait Weiss Orcutt, Those Striking Shades I :: The Magician
William Wells, The Relic Room
Levi Andalou, [A blocked valve facilitates prayer.]
Simon Perchik, [It has nothing to do with the banjo]
*Jake Montgomery, The High Road to Tiffin
Mary Lou Buschi, Chorus
FLASH
Hedia Anvar, Disconnected
Christina Sun, I Am Not Jeremy Lin
Jacqueline Gabbitas, The Bone Plate
*Joshua Wetjen, Numbers
Erin Blue Burke, The Body That Ensures Survival
*David Nolan, Coop
*Ron Riekki, Destin
*Mariah Gese, The Cat Apocalypse
*Erin Pienaar, Ladies’ Night
Jennifer Solheim, The August Temples
Cathy Ulrich, Being the Murdered Actress
*Lynn Oseguera, Barren
SHORT STORIES
Nick Kolakowski, A History of Washington, D.C. in Nine Scenes
*Laura Moretz, The Fall Zone
Sarah Bradley, Cheshire Cat
T.C. Jones, Retreat
**Matt Whelihan, The Zoo
Jennifer Turnquist, Heavy Lifting
***Gloria Yuen, From Here to There
CREATIVE NONFICTION
*Sahalie Angell Martin, Apocalypse Then
*Emily Wick, Quarry
*Z. Shuff, Ode to the Record Holder
***William Hengst, Death in August
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***Both an Artist of Philadelphia & a Cleaver Emerging Artist
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Cover illustration by Emily Steinberg
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