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Fiction, Issue 10

Stanley’s Time by Robert Pope

As I have been playing with the idea of writing a time travel story, several ideas have occurred to me. Some of these ‘ideas’ I don’t remember anymore. I should…

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October 1, 2020
Fiction, Issue 10

Relent by Kristine Brown

And I was off, pedaling madly on a dusty dirt road, my disheveled ponytail damp with sweat. Messy bun. Ball of keratin stress. I winced in pain, my thumbs bleeding,…

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October 1, 2020
Fiction, Issue 10, Serializations

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

Click here to read Part 1.Click here to read Part 2. Loir-et-Cher, France 1742Château de Chambord, in search of the alchemist Count of St. Germain A return to the northern European climate was a…

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October 1, 2020
Fiction, Issue 10

Dating Tips and Tricks by Tim Peterson

If you knew Raymond, you’d think a bookstore would be the perfect place for him to meet a woman. Ideally, a nerdy pretty woman in a whimsical hat sipping a…

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October 1, 2020
Fiction, Issue 10

A Medieval Tale by Regina Clarke

In a late spring rain, the monk made his way along the covered stone path. Glancing out toward the garden where lay brothers were setting out new plants, undeterred by…

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October 1, 2020
Issue 10, Poetry

Mr. Walton by Urmila Rampersaud

I last saw him that Sunday. Sitting on an old pine log like a nuthatchstaring at the white morning glory in his garden. With quivering hands, he waved as the…

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October 1, 2020
Issue 10, Poetry

The Red Shoes by Katie Jenkins

I dance through sleep while others dream the stars on their distant throneare nothing to me there will be no more stained glassno incantations I dance through griefwhile others mourn my…

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October 1, 2020
Issue 10, Poetry

Follow the Sound of the Waves of the Sea by S. T. Brant

     i.            The sound of the Waves of EnvyLocks the gate to Life.Strand us on Styx’s shoresAll eternity to look upon the living mingle:The open air of joys forsworn forThe odes of…

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October 1, 2020
Issue 10, Poetry

Any Measure by J.L. Lapinel

You are so weird was the most loving thing my mother said and you speak Spanish that sounds like Armenian  but her arms were smooth and smelled like bread and she would let me write on her…

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October 1, 2020
Issue 10, Poetry

Janus by Abigail Pearson

to be bright       and carry oni wanted in       but also wanted outyou all looked like dancing mummies from here andthe bedroom is always safe for me friendship          or i hate herfucking               but also i’m…

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October 1, 2020
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  • Issue 8,  Poetry

    Sleeping Beauty by Christina Ciufo

    April 4, 2020 /

    In a decrypted charcoal stone tower interwoven with thorn vines,  beyond the tattered, transparent  white veil, lays a slumbering  angelic maiden, cursed  by a covetous fairy who recited  a veracious incantation on her  Christening.  Her marble face remains untouched  for hundreds of years, while the world,  a time she once…

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    Witness by Scott Elder

    November 1, 2019

    My Hips: Myrtle Beach Pavilion, Circa 1978 by Carol Parris Krauss

    April 4, 2020

    Letter from the Editor

    April 4, 2020
  • Issue 8,  Poetry

    gray as melancholy by Linda M. Crate

    April 4, 2020 /

    time heals all woundsor so they say,but i know that’s not true; nineteen going on twenty years and i still think of you— i wish you could’ve felt enoughlove to stay,but perhaps that day the nightmareswere stronger than any dreamthat could’ve saved you; but i miss you, uncle— i hope that…

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    Snow White by Christina Ciufo

    January 1, 2020

    Letter from the Editor

    April 4, 2020

    Though I Work in the Shadows by Hunter Blackwell

    July 1, 2019
  • Flash Fiction,  Issue 8

    Hands Clasped by Alice Godliman

    April 4, 2020 /

    We hear rumours of her journey as she flies towards us through Europe. Her cloak covers towns first, the busy ports, then it grows outwards from the seams of main roads. It will cover us all in time. Father Matthew says it is Pestilence sent from above, punishing us for…

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    If you could see my memories by Juliette Sebock

    May 1, 2019

    The Wolf by Chloe Gorman

    January 1, 2020

    Jefferson Island, 1980 by Jack. B. Bedell

    November 1, 2019
  • Issue 8,  Poetry

    On a Bench by the Waters of Oblivion by E. Samples

    April 4, 2020 /

    I sit beside you, strangerAnd waitA once-filled mindMy black sunflower seedsNow half sown Introductions are necessary I’m terrible with namesWe met before, you sayThe hillside, sanctuary Classroom, dinner tableCreek—To name a few Muted voicesScreen-strained lonelinessAnxiety and doubtWindows shutteredI drain the glass and wipeWater droplets from my mouth I don’t answer you, strangerAnd…

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    Letter from the Editor

    November 1, 2019

    The Three And A Half Lives Of Euphemia Stauton’s Dress by Amanda McLeod

    January 1, 2019

    Everett by Kwami Nyamidie

    July 1, 2019
  • Issue 8,  Poetry

    Racing a Fever Dream for Pinks by E. Samples

    April 4, 2020 /

    Maybe I should consult the devil. Maybe I should embrace world-revvingnightshade sonnets until clovenharmonies etch fountain pen rhythmsup and down my spine. Maybe I should appreciate unaccomplished blank space;Ride the empty page instead of enslaving meter and phrase.Maybe I should idle-out, back to the ground and exhaust the weight of symbols…

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    Loneliness and the Seduction of Fairy Tales by Robin Michel

    January 1, 2020

    I Break the Witch’s Hourglass by December Lace

    May 1, 2019

    The Birdkeeper by D. Brody Lipton

    January 1, 2020
  • Fiction,  Issue 8

    The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward John Ford by Daniel Ellis

    April 4, 2020 /

    From the trunk of his rented Citroën the coward John Ford drew his Panaflex camera, his beret, and his clapperboard.  He would need all of that apparatus here, in the Uffizi, on the trail of Jesse James.   Outside, Ford appreciated the Romanesque grandeur of the place, but it was not the…

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    Los Angeles, 1952, Part 1 by Wayne Turmel

    September 1, 2019

    The Glass Bottle Sang “I Ain’t Got Time Anymore” in 1971 by Kenneth Pobo

    November 1, 2019

    Thank You For Your Service: An Anthology

    May 27, 2019
  • Issue 8

    Letter from the Editor

    April 4, 2020 /

    Dear Readers, What a time to be alive. That’s it. That’s all I got. There are a few exciting things happening with TwistiT Press! Preorders have begun for Juliette Sebock’s Boleyn. The chapbook released May 19, 2020! For centuries, Anne Boleyn has been disparaged despite the strength she displayed in a…

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    The Wolf by Chloe Gorman

    January 1, 2020

    Six Seeds by Alicia Fitton

    April 4, 2020

    Table of Contents: Issue 5

    September 1, 2019
  • Fiction,  Issue 8

    Kicking Up A Stink by Aviva Treger

    April 4, 2020 /

    It began with a fire.  ‘Paranormal activity’, he said. ‘That’s what started it – ghosts, demons’.The phone line crackled and I held my breath.   I heard him tut, and sigh, then say,‘Or maybe you think he died of Spontaneous Human Combustion?’. There was a pause. ‘I’m not trying to scare you’, he…

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    Miss. Princott’s Time Travel Agency by Barbara Russell

    September 1, 2019

    Inevitable River by Robert Okaji

    November 1, 2019

    Tomorrow, A Physicist Sat On Your Sofa by Jonathan Payne

    May 1, 2019
  • Fiction,  Issue 8

    The Collection by Myna Chang

    April 4, 2020 /

    A shudder rakes me; it rises up from my soul, shaking this borrowed body like a fever dream. I press ahead, despite my fear. The Collector is coming for me. The throng roils on the platform below, hellbent on the open train doors. A giant digital clock in the center…

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    time stays. we go. by Helena Pantsis

    September 1, 2019

    Mr. Walton by Urmila Rampersaud

    October 1, 2020

    Six Seeds by Alicia Fitton

    April 4, 2020
  • Issue 8,  Poetry

    Josef Mengele Song by John Wall Barger

    April 4, 2020 /

    Every night we are afraidwe shut our eyeswe reveal ourselves to the night & to our blanketsas the dwarves of Auschwitz were revealed to Josef Mengele.They took us from the orphanage in a dump truckbacked up to a fire pit,we tumbled out,Josef Mengele & the SS officers burst out of the foreston motorcycles circling the flames.To each other…

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    My Hips: Myrtle Beach Pavilion, Circa 1978 by Carol Parris Krauss

    April 4, 2020

    Gisele Bundchen by Valium Hippy

    November 1, 2019

    The Well by Ray Ball

    January 1, 2020
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