Short Fiction and Poetry

DarkWinter Press is excited to announce the authors and their books that we've secured as of now for the remainder of 2026 until Fall 2027! [...]

Smiling, my tea mug reminds me every morning that I need to take twenty pain pills to make it through the day. Too painful to smile back. [...]

January 5th, 2004 The patient presents with two unusual growths on the underside of their left breast. On biopsy, both growths appear to be tomato plants.

Everything is going according to plan.Dinner was nothing less than perfect. I made reservations at a rooftop steakhouse [...]

I reach into the bramble, accepting each bite, a sting as strong as sweetness on my fingers. [...]

Last year, 2019, on the eve of the Vernal Equinox, during the calling in of Spring, we stopped a late-season blizzard, halted it, [...]

Beth slid the picture into a crack in the stone wall of the summer cabin. Maybe Charles would find it and remember her, someday. [...]

It’s a beautiful June day, and there is no excuse not to get off my butt, walk downtown, and get my Library Card. [...]

We built a home of sunflower petals A big he loves me he loves me not We caroused in thunderstorms [...]

DarkWinter Press is thrilled to announce our latest release, the fascinating linked story collection by Cindy Matthews, Audrey Droop: Stories! [...]