Fresh-Cut Lit & More

ISSUE NO. 44

WINTER 2023

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INTRODUCING:
STORY SEEK!

Special Feature

Five Philadelphia Writers

We’re thrilled to present five new virtual-reality journeys combining color, sound, and site-specific poetry, memoir, and fiction. Story Seek is a multimedia love letter to Philadelphia’s streets, neighborhoods, and secret, favorite places. Works by top local authors trace paths through five Philadelphia neighborhoods. Story Seek’s unique desktop app is part immersive theater, part video game, and part neighborhood poetry slam, offering users a new template for interactive, place-based digital art that celebrates contemporary urban life. Story Seek is a collaboration between Cleaver and the Drexel Entrepreneurial Game Studio, funded in part by the William Penn Foundation and the Philadelphia Cultural Fund. 

Experience five video journeys now—and join our mailing list for first access to the interactive game, coming soon from Drexel University’s Entrepreneurial Game Studio and Cleaver. 

FICTION

Read from Cleaver Magazine’s collection of published fiction gathered from each quarterly issue.

The Love
by Monique Danielle***

Retrospective
by Marie Manilla

The Detriment of Doubt
by Hannah Smart*

Freedom Trail
by Joshua Ambre*

Stay on the Line
by Richie Zaborowske

Song of the Redwoods
by David Waters

POETRY

Read from Cleaver Magazine’s collection of published poetry gathered from each quarterly issue.

FLASH

Read from Cleaver Magazine’s collection of published flash gathered from each quarterly issue.

Mom and the Otters
by Meg Pokrass

Tidings of Comfort and Joy
by Patricia Flaherty Pagan

Two Micros
by Kelli Short Borges*

CREATIVE NONFICTION

Read from Cleaver Magazine’s collection of published creative nonfiction gathered from each quarterly issue.

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