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The Golden Key

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Filled with curiosities. A literary journal of speculative #fiction and #poetry. Issue #8: Revolutionary Things art by Aleksandra Apocalisse. We like keys.

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If you loved @AABalaskovits's revisionist fairytale flash "The Candy Children's Mother" as much as we did (you can read it here: wp.me/p9V8I4-db), be sure to check out her other great work in places like @JukedMagazine, @Wigleaf, @GoldenKeyLit, @SmokeLong, and @gonelawn.
The Candy Children’s Mother by A.A. Balaskovits

The Candy Children’s Mother by A.A. Balaskovits

I had to send them away. They were children not born of me; they came rushing out between some other woman’s legs, one right after the other, and I was told she lost so much of her liquid that, as …

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SFWP@SFWP1 Feb 2019
Check out Magic For Unlucky Girls, @AABalaskovits’s collection of surprising fairytales, part of February’s #kindlemonthlydeal! Available at: amzn.to/2VXazWM #ebooks #booklovers
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You still have a little over an hour to submit to our flash contest, if you’re not too tired from trick-or-treating!
The Golden Key (@GoldenKeyLit) profile pictureThe Golden Key@GoldenKeyLit3 Aug 2018
Announcing our 2018 Flash Fiction Contest, judged by @ambernoelle! $200 prize + publication. Submit now! whatwonderfulthings.net/main…
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You’ve still got a week to submit to our 2018 flash contest! Submissions close on Halloween!
The Golden Key (@GoldenKeyLit) profile pictureThe Golden Key@GoldenKeyLit3 Aug 2018
Announcing our 2018 Flash Fiction Contest, judged by @ambernoelle! $200 prize + publication. Submit now! whatwonderfulthings.net/main…
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Announcing our 2018 Flash Fiction Contest, judged by @ambernoelle! $200 prize + publication. Submit now! whatwonderfulthings.net/main…
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"It was still during the early years of flooding when I began to develop phantom protuberances. What a disorienting time." -- from "Sweet Potatoes," by Helen Hofling (featuring a bonus appearance by Emma Goldman!) whatwonderfulthings.net/main… #revolutionarythings
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"Emma Goldman has been reconstituted by the advanced science of anarchists of the future living on Mars from an ancient can of Manischewitz chicken soup." from Lorraine Schein's "Emma Goldman on Mars," today's #RevolutionaryThing whatwonderfulthings.net/main…
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Hear Ye! "Queen Elizabeth still exists in the Appalachian Mountains," but perhaps not in the form you'd expect. Read Gregory Ariail's "Queen Elizabeth as Fungus," a revolution of bodily form, here: whatwonderfulthings.net/main…
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If you haven’t read @AABalaskovits’ book, you MUST. And look! A deal!! teapawt.net/aabalaskovits/status/9…
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Today's Revolutionary Thing features the revolution of time and of everyday objects (and a certain utensil in particular!). From @bpladek's "Spoon": "I was the second object the princess touched when she gained the gift to enliven dead things..." whatwonderfulthings.net/main…
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"...But to call my grandmother a woman would not be completely accurate...." -- from @sanguliupo's "My Grandmother, the Swan," today's #revolutionarything: whatwonderfulthings.net/main…
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Great news for contributor @AABalaskovits! Keep your fingers tightly crossed! teapawt.net/aabalaskovits/status/9…
Today, the revolution begins. "Foment" by Susannah Russell: "The blow came unseen, / an invisible fist / shattering my jaw. / I spat my teeth into the dusk." whatwonderfulthings.net/main… #revolutionarythings #planting #teeth
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In @mcsweeneys: "A More Realistic AWP Schedule" mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-mo…
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We read so many amazing stories for this contest; thank you to all who submitted, and thank you to @carmenmmachado for judging!
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Today, we feature "Juvenescence" by @jennkrohn: winner of the 2017 Flash Fiction Open, judged by @carmenmmachado! "My mother finds me still in bed, curled into a ball. She strokes my hair and says, 'Soon, you’ll be a grown up.' I only groan." whatwonderfulthings.net/main…
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