Short Fiction and Poetry

The flowers warmed to the sound of her voice When she sang in lower case her alto matte finish voice  Delicate petals half fell [...]

Their families are pleased to announce the marriage of their children Miss Jo March and Master Bruce Wayne on June 1, 1867 [...]

In the dark New Orleans night, Marta Novak left the university library and trudged across campus toward their apartment. [...]

DarkWinter Press is thrilled to announce our latest release, the thrilling science fiction adventure, Conflict: Mars by Gordon K. Jones [...]

Sure, the horns. Of course, the horns. But no one expects, the deep baritone whispers, [...]

Walt Granger was dead. Funeral felt like a union meeting, just better beer, and nobody bitching about payroll. [...]

A giant loom with ten thousand bobbins churns out blanket after blanket [...]

I had undergone the procedure three times before we gave up: hormone injections, egg extraction, incubation. Those were tense times. [...]

Bonnets overlapping ambulances standing as centres of traffic’s mandala: pins pulling pinheads and seams along fabric to place. the blue balling core; the tack and the pursing together. a cluster in clothing: life’s flow as it happens around. people in the way getting out of it. making space for others. and bonnets overlapping and scaling toward the pavement, a pattern, but only from above, like petals around flowers bursting out toward a point. and ahead the real drama – so

He stumbled and pitched forward, shooting out his left hand. And though he stopped himself from going face first into the gully muck [...]