Short Fiction and Poetry

DarkWinter Press is excited to announce the release of Fighting For Decency, the new novel by Gordon K. Jones, available now on Amazon!

Gavin Helmscott III had lived, if you could call what he did living, nearly three centuries whole and unmolested, if a bit faded of late[..]

An insidious intent tells our inner selves Of sacrifice and solitude, suspense and sacrilege, Of sorrows and souls' starvation [...]

This instrument I cannot tune between your ribs. Inside these shadowlands of birch and pine, your own svelte tongue ripe with sunlight.[...]

That toy called to her. It wasn’t anything special: likely only cost four bucks brand new. However, something about this [...]

I remember losing the horizon and everything above it. It doesn’t matter, you’d said, distracted, fixing the plate with silvered salts[...]

A couple months ago, I could navigate these streets in snowshoes. Pull myself forward by jabbing deep with ski poles. That’s impossible[...]

I would hold you closely in the confines of a nightmare We drift towards hollowness not a mention of empty pools of light [...]

I stood beside my father when he killed a rabbit at the back of our farm. It was the same day that Regan, my baby brother, was born. [...]

DarkWinter Press is excited to announce our latest release, An Individual by Chris Klassen, available now!

“I think I fancy a Chinese tonight. You?” I swear mealtimes never used to be this uncomfortable. “Uh...I’ll just go with English, today[...]

try not to forget try to remember try to remember try to remember [...]

DarkWinter Lit is thrilled to announce that The Water Ran Cold was chosen as the winning short story in our 2nd Anniversary Contest [...]

DarkWinter Lit is thrilled to announce that Seekers by Laurie Koensgen was chosen as the winning poem in our 2nd Anniversary Contest [...]

DarkWinter Lit is excited to announce the writers who have been shortlisted for our Poetry and Short Story 2nd Anniversary competition [...]

DarkWinter Press is excited to announce our latest release, the novella Words On The Page by Zary Fekete, available now! [...]

DarkWinter Press is excited to announce the authors and their books that we've secured for the remainder of 2024 and Winter/Spring 2025![..]

Baxter House Editions presents The Streets, Like Flowers, Come Alive In The Rain by Steve Denehan!

Available now, the first publication under our new imprint Baxter House Editions--The Places We Haunt by Cecilia Kennedy! [...]

DarkWinter Press is excited to announce our latest release, The Roach Family and Other Stories by Cindy Matthews [...]