Fresh-Cut Lit & More
Issue No. 24 • WINTER 2018-19
ART
Inspired to See
Paintings by Giovanni Casadei
VISUAL NARRATIVE
Emily Steinberg, Drawing a Blank
POETRY
† D.R. Shipp, With Each Passing Day, The More
† Erik Fuhrer, Stonehenge
Leia Darwish, Liberty/Liberty
Michelle Matthees, Cyanotype
† Christopher Blackman, Pax Romana
James Grinwis, Three Poems
Kathleen Hellen, the juvenile connection
Gabriel Welsch, The Grave Your Ambition Digs for Itself
† Heather Holmes, Terms and Conditions
† Peter Leight, The Tower in Our City
FLASH
Valerie Fox, Two Flash Pieces
† Isabel Theodore, Human Hydroponics
Francine Witte, Two Flash Pieces
Nicole Baute, Barcelona on a Saturday
Leslie Pietrzyk, Icebergs
Yaki Margulies, Talent and Luck
Hannah Harlow, Pencil Me In
SHORT STORIES
† Naomi Xu Elegant, Dinner
Anna Dorn, Leo Rising
Doug Ramspeck, Half-Life
Dawn Davies, Angels in the Architecture
CREATIVE NONFICTION
† David Marchino, Origin Story
† Megan Lunny, A Brief Guide to Dissecting the Fingernails of a Quiet Girl
Vivé Griffith, When My Memories Became His Memories
Leslie Lindsay, Children, Caution
† Andrew Jason Jacono, Marlowe
† Blake London, Sean’s Room
Dan A. Cardoza, There Is More To Death Than Life
†A Cleaver Emerging Artist
Cover illustration by Emily Steinberg
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