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Flash Fiction, Special Issue

Lava by Robert Libbey

“You a thief like your friend?” called a voice from the back room. The tips of my fingers left prints on a dusty soap wrapper. “You have any tissues?” I…

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May 15, 2022
Poetry, Special Issue

Domain of the Golden Dragon, January 1952 by Janet M. Greenstreet

Munitions jeeps abandoned, each mortar shell is carried to the front on our backs,brass logs peering like mournersover shoulders in solitary confinement. Dirt chokes oxygen from a listless sky, the surrounding hills…

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May 15, 2022
Poetry, Special Issue

A Graveyard for Soldiers by James Piatt

In a graveyard for soldiers under a frowning moon, birds eschew the crumbs of dry bones of dead warriors, dogs curve around the boundaries as they sense the odor of…

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May 15, 2022
Poetry, Special Issue

Four Five Commando by Matthew M.C. Smith

Dartmoor speedmarch ’6630 miles, do or die,de-humans, rake-thin,carry loads on backs.Thick boots, breath-beaten,noses, jaws, like bladesof cattle boneslittered on route. Men of arms,of Four Five Commando,see beyond the upland hill-rim;a…

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May 22, 2022
Poetry, Special Issue

Omaha Beach, Normandy by Danny P. Barbare

Whatdoeshesee lookingoutthekitchenwindow smokingacigarette anddrinkingaMillerbeer? Statement from the author: I would get up in the middle of the night and dad would be drinking a Miller beer. Looking out the dark…

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May 15, 2022
Poetry, Special Issue

In the Days Leading Up to Your Death by Janet M. Greenstreet

You saw someone without a face waiting in whitesitting on your hospital cot against the dried-up paneled wall of our living room. we were watching Antiques Roadshow He arrived a few days…

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May 15, 2022
Poetry, Special Issue

War Return by Catherine Zickgraf

She’s mentally moving him in, refreshing the drawer of cotton undershirts, stackinghis tees in rectangles, ironing polo collars. His irises will glow again as sapphire and jade waves of shirts layering the…

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May 21, 2022
Fiction, Special Issue

Out in The Suck by Joseph S. Pete

No one ever warns you about just how boring war can be. Yeah, there’s that cliche we’ve all heard about war being “months of boredom punctuated by moments of terror.” …

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May 15, 2022
Poetry, Special Issue

Redeployed by Catherine Zickgraf

She crochets upstairsfrom his lonely chair,tuning out the rockets of July-smoke sky. For bills not flags, yetshe chained her youthto the steel of his military-morgue toe-tag. Under lashes like willows,…

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May 21, 2022
Poetry, Special Issue

Maggie’s Drawers* by Janet M. Greenstreet

Beyond smoking scrub, a red flag rises on a rifle. I hear O’Malley curse the almighty as we all deflate: exhausted, hungry, lice-infested, frozen. Stillness shrouds our brooding group. More hours…

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May 15, 2022
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  • Poetry,  Special Issue

    Memories of a Peaceful Time by James Piatt

    May 15, 2022 /

    Screams in broken languages of anguish slash into sand and rock leaving a gory scarlet tint to sandy dust soaring high into the air. A cold hopelessness lingers over the blood painted sand as battles continue, on and on. Death circles over the battered arenas of combat as the deafening…

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    A Peculiar Count in Time, Part 3 by M.K. Beutymhill

    October 1, 2020

    The Wolf by Chloe Gorman

    January 1, 2020

    Buried by Monica Kagan

    January 1, 2019
  • Poetry,  Special Issue

    The Soldier by James Piatt

    May 15, 2022 /

    The pale, lonely man exists in a patchwork put together-life, his parts held together with Elmer’s glue, and bailing wire. His soul… dark brown like Bourbon and Coca Cola; he is a conglomeration of misplaced desires, fantasies, and sounds of gaudy birds screeching stridently inside his tortured mind. He shuffles through…

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    thisis(not)thewayidie by Helena Pantsis

    September 1, 2019

    SS St. Louis, 1939 by Merril D. Smith

    July 1, 2020

    Letter from the Editor

    April 4, 2020
  • Fiction,  Special Issue

    Out in The Suck by Joseph S. Pete

    May 15, 2022 /

    No one ever warns you about just how boring war can be. Yeah, there’s that cliche we’ve all heard about war being “months of boredom punctuated by moments of terror.”  The terror, all anyone ever focuses on is the terror. The terror is the highlight, the talking point. Everyone cautions…

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    Table of Contents: Thank You For Your Service

    May 15, 2022

    The Shadows at Night by Joshua Ian

    September 1, 2019

    Six Seeds by Alicia Fitton

    April 4, 2020
  • Poetry,  Special Issue

    Aberrant Thought While in a Check-out Line by Ed Ahern

    May 15, 2022 /

    It’s okay to cry or smile in private,but if among others, even strangers,displaying our mood is at bestbad manners, and at worstdemented behavior to be evaded. But would it not be simpler to copeif we blatantly screamed or sulkedor laughed out loud for no apparent cause?For we could sense the…

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    Negative Entropy by Robert Perron

    September 1, 2019

    There’s only a one way ticket in a streetcar named Desire by Satya Dash

    November 1, 2019

    Creative Study: Fabrice Poussin

    May 1, 2019
  • Poetry,  Special Issue

    Here We Are by Ed Ahern

    May 15, 2022 /

    What can be said or doneAbout what hasn’t happened?Yet living in the momentturns away the inner eyefrom anticipated pleasuresand awaited fears.If we portray ourselvesas what we wish to be,perhaps we need to worryjust a little more aboutwhere the hell we are. ____________________________________________________________ Ed Ahern is a former naval officer who specialized in…

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    Two Paths to the Cemetery on the Hill by Amy Alexander

    January 1, 2019

    A Peculiar Count in Time, Part 1 by M.K. Beutymhill

    April 4, 2020

    The V.A. Waiting Room, PTSD Counseling, 11 a.m. by Ron Riekki

    May 15, 2022
  • Special Issue

    Letter from the Editor

    May 15, 2022 /

    In May 2019, Adrienne, Craig, and I embarked on a new adventure — a charity anthology. But not just for any cause. It was for one my near and dear to my heart. We wanted to put together an anthology that would honor those who have served and are still…

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    Midnight at the Crossroads Diner by Myna Chang

    September 1, 2019

    Thank You, Grandpa by Tom Gumbert

    March 1, 2019

    I Break the Witch’s Hourglass by December Lace

    May 1, 2019
  • Special Issue

    Table of Contents: Thank You For Your Service

    May 15, 2022 /

    Letter from the Editor Here We AreEd Ahern Aberrant Thought While in a Check-out LineEd Ahern Valor ConcealedJason O’Toole Out in The SuckJoseph S. Pete The SoldierJames Piatt Memories of a Peaceful TimeJames Piatt A Graveyard for SoldiersJames Piatt Omaha Beach, NormandyDanny P. Barbare Come Home SoldierChristina Ciufo When I…

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    Reflective Surfaces by Ryan Purcell

    April 4, 2020

    The Red Shoes by Katie Jenkins

    October 1, 2020

    Everett by Kwami Nyamidie

    July 1, 2019
  • Announcement

    Hiatus Announcement

    October 4, 2020 /

    ‘If you feel “burnout” setting in, if you feel demoralized and exhausted, it is best, for the sake of everyone, to withdraw and restore yourself.’ Dalai Lama TL;DR Twist in Time Lit Mag is going on hiatus for 2021. No issues will be released until 2022. 2021 will solely focus on publishing…

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    I Break the Witch’s Hourglass by December Lace

    May 1, 2019

    An Elegant Solution by Trisha Lea

    March 1, 2019

    Night Wait by Fanni Sütő

    July 1, 2019
  • Issue 10,  Poetry

    She can’t help herself by Mary Ford Neal

    October 1, 2020 /

    She’s smiling      the woman whose husband      will shortly have her murdered           whose thimble, whose sheets      whose husband’s flesh           will soon be warmed           by a more obliging body      with a lot more give and quite a bit less to say. She’s smiling     and at my leisure I can appraise      every detail of her…

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    Midnight by Fanni Sütő

    January 1, 2020

    Multiverse theory by Jasmina Kuenzli

    April 4, 2020

    Point Blank, Part 3 by Paige Bagby

    July 1, 2019
  • Fiction,  Issue 10

    This Is The Room Where We Tell Stories About The Future by Jonathan Payne

    October 1, 2020 /

    This is the room where we tell stories about the future. It is curved, spacious, and filled with light. The deep stone window frames have no glass, allowing a cool breeze to blow in from the garden. The distant sound of a waterfall can be heard under occasional bursts of…

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    Hard stubborn things by Lee Potts

    March 1, 2019

    Shapes in the Mist by Merril D. Smith

    January 1, 2019

    Crow Barn by DC Diamondopolous

    April 4, 2020
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