Short Fiction and Poetry

You have been my client now for over a quarter of a century. To this day I hear you asking all the wrong questions [...]

DarkWinter Press is excited to announce our latest release, the incredible poetry collection Leaning in the same direction by Bill Garvey!

Realizing how small your life is, especially next to a dinosaur skeleton someone carefully dusted and cleaned [...]

At the station, my friends stand in a line pretending to be clapping but using only one hand. Their hands flap silently, ridiculously. [...]

The road maps itself out. Pallbearers look around, but there is no public transport [...]

How I’d love to fall in love with you and see the city on a tandem bike (I can’t bike, you’ll have to help me). [...]

It was disgustingly hot, no clouds, no breeze, felt as though if you reached just a bit you could touch the sun. There is a diner [...]

The movers are in the living room. I hear them dropping things into boxes. They’re using rolls of clear plastic tape. [...]

They rarely traveled in the same circles, having been mortal enemies for decades. Zika in South America, Marburg in Africa [...]

I saw a summer tanager or did I just see a mirage? There was only a glimpse of red on my left side as I walked [...]