Short Fiction and Poetry

O devil? No devil behind an old oak tree; no matter how much I wish there could be [...]

DarkWinter Press is excited to announce our latest release, Welcome To This Side Of Midnight by Jonathan R. Nightshade!

The sky was impossibly blue, and though it was hurricane season, nothing had appeared weather wise. Until it did. [...]

The parking lot princess sits on her bench perched in the middle of the parking lot, with large suitcases bookending the bench. [...]

My roommate, Abioye Ogundipe, was both an idealist and stubborn. Those qualities could be viewed as admirable. [...]

i wake up to a haze of automatic thoughts i drop a little jazz on my player suit up in my best shirt and check my cell phone [...]

He does not understand why the white heron, that dream-like thing, is there wherever he walks in the canyon [...]

I was brushing my teeth with a cigarette butt in the shitter of some dive, testing whether or not the shadow in the mirror was halfway [...]

The dictionary animals are fast asleep, as they have been all their lives, as you were told when you were told [...]

I have my grandfather’s ruby ring. It is wrapped in a tiny manilla envelope, tucked in the bottom drawer of my nightstand. [...]