Fresh-Cut Lit & More
ISSUE NO. 51
FALL 2025
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CREATIVE NONFICTION
Read from Cleaver Magazine’s collection of published creative nonfiction gathered from each quarterly issue.
On Superman
by Cornelius Fortune
2024 Creative Nonfiction Contest Semifinalist
Running
by Danuta Hinc
2024 Creative Nonfiction Contest Semifinalist
Schrödinger’s Sister
by Michelle Bitting
POETRY
Read from Cleaver Magazine’s collection of published poetry gathered from each quarterly issue.
After-Birth
by Sam Kerbel*
I Was Washing At Night Out In The Yard
by Michael Grinthal*
perfect conductor
by Dara Goodale*
FLASH
Read from Cleaver Magazine’s collection of published flash gathered from each quarterly issue.
Before I Held You
by Anne Anthony
When I See My Son in Your Truck
by Judy Harju Galliher
Goatville
by Susan Israel*
What I Know about Death
by Sherri Alms*
The Spartans Sack Troy, Alabama
by Travis Flatt
The Wasp Nest
by Elizabeth Wenger
FICTION
Read from Cleaver Magazine’s collection of published fiction gathered from each quarterly issue.
Red-Headed Mike Finnegan
by Jake Stimmel*
Fairview
by Harris Quinn*
Henry Goes to the Symphony
by Richard Holinger
VISUAL NARRATIVE
Connecticus Diggs, Cultural Detective Episode 3:
Reputations
by Clifford Thompson
Read from Cleaver Magazine’s collection of published visual narratives gathered from each quarterly issue.
Illustrations by Karen Rile
*Cleaver Emerging Artist
**Artist of Philadelphia
***Both an Artist of Philadelphia & a Cleaver Emerging Artist