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Fresh-Cut Lit & More
ISSUE NO. 44
WINTER 2023
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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.Â
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.Â
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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
A Man’s Reach Should Exceed His Grasp
by J. Bradley Minnick*
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POETRY
Read from Cleaver Magazine’s collection of published poetry gathered from each quarterly issue.
Everywhere the World is Green and Dying
by Todd Robinson
Manger, Emptied
by Michelle Bitting
Transness as Perpetual Paperboy
by Gideon Huan-Lang*
Anniversary Poem II
by Matt Thomas
I missed another deadline but it’s okay it’s really okay
by Erin Mizrahi
Drink, Anyway, The Light
by Ginger Ayla*
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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*
Four Microfictions
by Jeff Friedman
Transported (Nonfiction)
by Sue Mell
Recipe for Viable Zygotes (Nonfiction)
by Beth Broome
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CREATIVE NONFICTION
Read from Cleaver Magazine’s collection of published creative nonfiction gathered from each quarterly issue.
This One Small Thing Will Fix Your Sex Life
by Jennifer Jussel*
To the Man Who Listens for Echoes
by Robbin Farr***
Cover Design by Karen Rile
Story Seek Cover by Jackson Tatge
*Cleaver Emerging Artist
**Artist of Philadelphia
***Both an Artist of Philadelphia & a Cleaver Emerging Artist