Fresh-Cut Lit & More ISSUE NO. 45 SPRING 2024 Want weekly writing tips, author interviews, and book reviews, plus 4 quarterly issues sent directly to your inbox? Subscribe to Cleaver! It’s free. The Cleaver Magazine Issue 45 Contributors Reading is available now! Watch it here. FICTION LOOKING FOR MORE? Read from Cleaver Magazine’s collection of published fiction gathered from each quarterly issue. Baby, Sweetheart, Honeyby Katie Tonellato* Proximityby Sofi Guven*** Miguel’s Sanchoby T.S. Bender*** Suspension Pointsby Julian Shendelman*** The Back Nineby Kim Magowan The Podby Nicole Brogdon Exhumeby Sofia Drummond-Moore* CREATIVE NONFICTION LOOKING FOR MORE? Read from Cleaver Magazine’s collection of published creative nonfiction gathered from each quarterly issue. At Elevationby Ariana Kelly* A Sudden Gust Of Windby Darcy Lohmiller* On what used to be the R7, on what used to be the R8, on what used toby Rachel Toliver*** POETRY LOOKING FOR MORE? Read from Cleaver Magazine’s collection of published poetry gathered from each quarterly issue. Ligertown: Heraldic attitudeby Susan Goslee Aquaculture Quartetby Jess Yuan Sometimes we speak to ourselvesby Peter Grandbois Hospice Intakeby Luke Koesters* They are Calling You and This is What They are Sayingby Michael Grinthal* Question 1: How will you become your mother?by Sofia Sears*** Fairy Shrimpby Richard Parisio FLASH LOOKING FOR MORE? Read from Cleaver Magazine’s collection of published flash gathered from each quarterly issue. Salt Paintby Claudia Monpere Three Microfictionsby Kathryn Silver-Hajo Angelaby Federico Escobar* How to Drink Enough Water in Wartime (Nonfiction)by Rebecca Entel A Constellation of Errors (Nonfiction)by Sophie Nunberg* All That Was Not There… (Nonfiction)by Sven Birkerts Cover Design by Karen Rile*Cleaver Emerging Artist**Artist of Philadelphia***Both an Artist of Philadelphia & a Cleaver Emerging Artist