Fresh-Cut Lit & More
Issue No. 31 • FALL 2020
COLLABORATIONS
Reparations Wine Label
An Oenophilogial Collaboration
† Text and concept by J’nai Gaither
† Art by Phoebe Funderburg-Moore
The Esperanza Project
A Musical Collaboration
Musical Composition and by Richard Casimir
Video Editing by Michael Casimir
“Antumbra” (poem) by Herman Beavers
Terra in Flux
An Ekphrastic Collaboration
Poetry by Mark Danowsky
Photographs by John Singletary
CREATIVE NONFICTION
Greg Emilio, To Make and Eat Time
† Freesia McKee, Eleven Micro-Memoirs from the Pandemic
Roberta Beary, The Years Go By in Single File
SHORT STORIES
† Seyda Akyuz-Mannion, Violation
Christopher David Rosales, Pets for Penitents
Kim Magowan, Gare Du Nord, 1988
† Jared Lemus, Night Class
† Ben Austin, Smoky
Benjamin Soileau, Foxley Redux
Shanna Merceron, Dirty Thirty
Melissa Benton Barker, Some Other Continent
FLASH
Steve Chang, Triptych
K.S. Lokensgard, Five Ways the World Ends
Susan Frith, Welcome Center (Some Notes for Our Visitors)
Sue Mell, Interval
VISUAL NARRATIVE
† Steph Jones, A Sack of Potatoes, The Tired Farmer, & The Mighty World
POETRY
Evan Anders, speaking of sunflowers
† Lis Chi Siegel, my lover starts seeing
Brian Ellis, The Price of Hands
Nicole Greaves, Eidolon
† Rosemary Kitchen, Field Notes for the Magician: Sleight of Hand
† A Cleaver Emerging Artist
Cover illustration by Phoebe Funderburg-Moore
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