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In this issue, Erika Veurink takes us on a tragic, and perhaps painfully humorous, first date with two people whose interest in each other simply don’t match in “Five Hours Ahead.” Diane Payne recounts ways isolation makes simple trips fraught in the short essay “The New You.” And Ralph Sneeden asks, “Where is the middle / distance of history” in four poems beginning with “Skiff Hill.” Sneeden’s forthcoming collection, Surface Fugue, is available in November from EastOver Press.

The images in this issue are from a 1921 illustrated guide to figure skating by Swedish skating champion Bror Myer.

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In this issue, Daniel Leach delivers two poems from the South Carolina low country beginning with “the year after your father dies.” Lauren Green tells the story of a couple’s reconciliation trip after the husband’s affair is discovered in “My Life.” And essayist Chris Arthur reveals the joy and sometimes dark thoughts that are inspired by his page-a-day art calendar in “Picturing the Day.”

The photographs in this issue come from Physical Training for Business Men by American author Harrie Irving Hancock.

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In this issue, Melissa Helton shares two poems beginning with “The Teenager Has Gone Witchy.” Hanna Ferguson uses food to recount important moments in her life in “An In-Progress Cookbook of Recipes That Stick to My Ribs.” And Joan Wickersham prepares for Halloween with the best of intentions in the short story “The Subterranean Calendar.”

The images in this issue feature cyanotypes of British algae, produced by Anna Atkins (1799-1871), an English botanist and, some argue, the very first female photographer.

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In this issue, Peggy Xu remembers the joy of culinary whiplash that results when food and culture combine in “Yam’Tcha.” David B. Prather shares three poems beginning with one that takes us into the beautiful mind of “The Boy in the High School Science Room.” And Ray Trotter depicts a scene of speculation and frustration when two men wonder what’s inside a locked workshop in “Scavengers.”

The images in this issue were created by German biologist Ernst Haeckel in his classic book Art Forms in Nature (1899–1904).

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In this issue, Vanessa Nirode deciphers alteration notes left for the behind-the-scenes tailors for television shows in “Dart Waist for Another Damn Prostitute.” Benjamin Woodard gives an account of Barry, who acts impulsively while out for an evening stroll in “Reckless Abandon.” And in “Saving Sgt. Billings,” Ohio Poet Laureate Kari Gunter-Seymour writes about what happens when you try to love someone who thinks he doesn’t deserve to be loved.

The images in this issue are film stills taken from the short film “I Like Tomorrow” a sci-fi musical about a lonely lady astronaut, by Jennifer Reeder and Nancy Andrews.

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In this issue, John Davis, Jr. shares four poems beginning with a praise to the coast in “Inland: A Breakup Letter.” Matt Cashion relishes in the complexities of human nature that emerge when a mysterious light source appears in the sky in “See You Soon?” And Meredith McCarroll extols the virtues of packing lightly while always having precisely what you need in “Bags.”

The images in this issue come from a series of lectures delivered in the 1860s at the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia by Lewis W. Leeds.

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In this issue, Jesse Graves delves into family history and place in three poems that begin with “An Exile.” Ace Boggess tells the story of the long, winding road the carries eight men to a West Virginia penitentiary in “Welcome to Rock Haul.” And Amy Wright remembers the summer after her brother died from cancer, in “Life After Death,” an excerpt from her Paper Concert: A Conversation in the Round.

The images in this issue come from Dr. Alesha Sivartha’s The Book of Life: The Spiritual and Physical Constitution of Man.

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This issue of Cutleaf features excerpts from Vanishing Point, Dirk Marple’s hybrid memoir on handwritten postcards with original images.The text and images were part of ninety-two numbered postcards mailed over time to Marple’s thesis advisor, Jenny Boully. All of the postcards arrived, though not in the order they were sent.

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In this issue, William Glidden writes about the nontransferable properties of immortality in “A Day at Fenway.”
Luci Arbus-Scandiffio recalls the complexities of attending school in four poems ranging from the realistic to the surreal, beginning with “Milburn Middle.” And George Singleton employs his trademark sharp wit to tell the story of a man who wedges himself between his “unfettered sister and her tow-headed son” in “You’re Supposed To Be Where You Are.”

The images in this issue are captured from “How The Eyes Function” (1941), an educational film by K.K. Bosse released as part of the Knowledge Builders Film Series.

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In this issue, Matt Muilenberg investigates why a small town newspaper editor would pass on national news in “In Local News.” Kevin Fitton reveals how differently the world can look from the vantage point of “A Magical Adventures™ Hot Air Balloon Ride.” And former Kentucky Poet Laureate George Ella Lyon revisits and updates her own poem in “Where I’m From 2018.”

The images in this issue are from the Chilean Museum of Pre-Columbian Art in Santiago, Chile. The museum houses artifacts from ancient Central and South America.

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In celebration of Short Story Month, this all-fiction issue features stories from three wonderful writers.
Douglas Bauer brings together two baseball legends with vastly different temperaments in “Into The Grand American Day.” Chris McGinley explores the brute force of a special kind of boar hog that can’t be de-tusked in “The Boar Hog.” And Darci Schummer shows the unraveling of a college professor prone to destructive behavior in “Keystone Species.”

The images in this issue are photographs from 1940 taken during a square dance in McIntosh County in Oklahoma by photographers working for the U.S. government’s Farm Security Administration (FSA).

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In this issue, Barrett Warner explores memorable plans for eternity in “Pianos and Stuff.” Russell Green questions the deft deployment of the dreaded adverb and why some writers argue that we should eliminate their use altogether in “Notoriously Abused.” And Clara Strong reveals how to cut the sheep—and perhaps the self—out of the sheep’s wool in “Shearing Season” and other poems.

The illustrations in this issue are from the 1906 French edition of H. G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds by Brazilian artist Henrique Alvim Corrêa.

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