Fresh-Cut Lit & More
Issue No. 28 • WINTER 2020
FLASH
Alex Behr, Swingers
Anne McGouran, Welcome to My Gallery of Genuine Look-Alikes
César Valdebenito, The Greatest Landscape He Had Ever Seen (trans. Toshiya KameiIn)
Kim Magowan, Redux
Tommy Dean, Lines So Sharp
Matthew Greene, Larchmont Charter Middle
*Anna Oberg, Bellecastle Street
Savannah Slone, Two Flash Pieces
Marianne Villanueva, Toad
*Mary Senter, A Saturday Morning Email…
Corey Miller, Bringing Dead Friends Into Conversation
Connor Goodwin, No Rest, Not Here
*Jude Vivien Dexter, bus plunge, an other opera
Francine Witte, It’s ghost time again
SHORT STORIES
Stefani Nellen, You’ve Got a Talent
Marilee Dahlman, The Art of Making Angels
Theo Greenblatt, A Family Man*
[*TW: This piece includes sexual assault scenes that may be triggering for some readers.]
POETRY
**Alice Hall, In Some Alien Prairie
Nathan Lipps, Field Work
*Jeremy Radin, Ode to the Nectarine; Marriages
CREATIVE NONFICTION
*Keygan Sands, Coaxing Life from Dead Man’s Fingers
*Kharys Ateh Laue, In Ward G
VISUAL NARRATIVE
THE CREATURE CRAWLIN’
Notes on Fatherhood in 2019
A Visual Narrative by Trevor Alixopulos
ART
A History of Anyway
Intermedia
by Nance Van Winckel
—
***Both an Artist of Philadelphia & a Cleaver Emerging Artist
—
Cover illustrations: “Toothbrush Love” by Emily Steinberg and detail from “The Creature Crawlin'” by Trevor Alixopulos
And while you’re here, take a peek inside
OUR CUTLERY DRAWER
In addition to the quarterly literary magazine, Cleaver publishes daily features:
Ask June
Cleaver’s in-house advice columnist
Book Reviews
Publications by small and indie presses
Writer-to-Writer
Essays on craft & the writing life
Interviews
With writers, editors, and more