Short Fiction and Poetry

I spent my childhood with a split open mind,  held in place by my mother’s hand. My eyes were a video camera, [...]

DarkWinter Press is thrilled to announce our latest release, Sweet Creatures: A Trilogy of Terror by Frank Paul Beghin, available now on Amazon in paperback and e-version for Kindle! [...]

I downloaded twenty years of videos then the headset came to life. A good friend I’d lost touch with appeared in the kitchen [...]

Again, Mary Maker's hands tore apart the layered ribs of my cardboard promises. Her lips embered breaths swelled within me [...]

DarkWinter Lit is thrilled to announce that Benorah by Zary Fekete was chosen as the winning entry in our 3rd Anniversary Short Story Ontest by judge Rod Carley! [...]

DarkWinter Lit is thrilled to announce that Clane, Just Before Christmas, Years Ago by Steve Denehan was chosen as the winning entry in our 3rd Anniversary Short Story Contest by judge Hollay Ghadery! [...]

Experts say stars create complex carbon-based molecules that propel into space. They float about and occasionally find their way to planets

Floating atop waters at midnight The seas of drifting words in moonlight When the moon’s serious ways are blonde

Pressed against my bolted window Distempered locks howl around his craggy face Brittle fingers nag the frame Bid me join the Dervish dance

“Sarah, you know I can’t watch the apocalypse without my morning coffee,” Jack said as he stumbled into the kitchen. [...]