Fresh-Cut Lit & More
ISSUE NO. 55
FALL 2026
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FICTION
Read from Cleaver Magazine’s collection of published fiction gathered from each quarterly issue.
Everything That Happens to You Happens to Me
by Maxine Krenzel***
These Are My Illusions
by A.C. Koch*
Gifts
by Molly Giles
Marco Polo
by Leslie Pietrzyk
They Clearly Wanted to Hold a Lamb
by Alex Nai
Come What May
by Janice Deal
POETRY
Read from Cleaver Magazine’s collection of published poetry gathered from each quarterly issue.
THE FIRE THAT CONSUMES ALL BEFORE IT
by Grace Alvino***
[My wife needed a second child and I did not.]
by Christopher Ankney
Number reassigned
by Jessica Rizzolo*
A poem with no death
by Jessica Rizzolo*
The Thermal Gospel of Burned Hands
by Joseph Randolph*
There is nothing to be fixed
by David Eileen*
FLASH
Read from Cleaver Magazine’s collection of published flash gathered from each quarterly issue.
Initials
by Barbara Parker*
The True Story of Cain and Abel
by Laura Leigh Morris*
Of Refusal
by Roxanne Noor*
Sam’s Quiet Goodbye
by Lynette Lamp
Memoir
by Misha Tentser
I’ll Beat You With a Wet Noodle
by Eileen Toomey*
CREATIVE NONFICTION
Read from Cleaver Magazine’s collection of published creative nonfiction gathered from each quarterly issue.
VISUAL NARRATIVE
CONNECTICUS DIGGS, Cultural Detective
Episode 7: The Believers
by Clifford Thompson
Read from Cleaver Magazine’s collection of published visual narratives gathered from each quarterly issue.
The illustrations in this issue are a collaboration by Jen Mathy and by Karen Rile
*Cleaver Emerging Artist
**Artist of Philadelphia
***Both an Artist of Philadelphia & a Cleaver Emerging Artist