Short Fiction and Poetry

DarkWinter Press is thrilled to announce our latest release, the short story collection The Wreckhouse by Christopher Butt!

Dominus burst through the wooden door as only a dark lord can. Or rather, he burst the door, the wood splintering into a thousand pieces [...]

I recognize you in the lines you place on paper in the words you recite to an audience in the hopes you express for creating community [...]

My family and I sat in the futuristic Vespertine restaurant in Los Angeles on a Sunday evening. [...]

Hi, my name is Rosemarie, who are you? We replied hi to the amiable woman Who then moved her beach chair closer to ours. [...]

My twin sister Kate and I figured that Stepma would be long gone by our birthday on November 28. Our stepmother couldn’t put up with Dad [...]

Best let bygone days be just that, Bye, gone! Lost in the fire from the crash of the car, All our albums up in flames [...]

“So, tell me Jeremy, me old son, what are you doing these days to keep the lights on? Still at the brokerage?” [...]

I asked Kathy Acker to haunt my house. She moved in immediately, the only guest I’d had in months. [...]

The clothes are in the dryer. Hannah is asking for another cookie. My husband pumps his fists as he reaches another level [...]