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Short Fiction and Poetry


walking the diurnal purlieu; tenement, spirit, and pastoral worlds by Brian Michael Barbeito
beyond the forest a field appears, but first you walk though a path that is framed on the sides by tall sumac red [...]


DarkWinter Press New Release: An Individual by Chris Klassen!
DarkWinter Press is excited to announce our latest release, An Individual by Chris Klassen, available now!


Shortlist Saturdays: Fancy A Chinese? by Chezza Lee
“I think I fancy a Chinese tonight. You?”
I swear mealtimes never used to be this uncomfortable.
“Uh...I’ll just go with English, today[...]


Shortlist Saturdays: Unfinished Letter in Reverse by Steve Denehan
try not to forget
try to remember
try to remember
try to remember [...]


Phantasmagoria by Kenneth Vincent Walker
The dimly lit stage has
Been lavishly set as
Obscure shape-shifting
Images and frightening [...]


Dumb Supper by David Estringel
Talking to the dead is something that one never really gets used to. It isn’t so much the fact that someone who has long since been dead[..]


Hopefully, the One Millionth and One Poem About Canadian Snow; Middle Aged Love Poem; Passing Into Darkness by Richard LeDue
It's okay not to know
who Al Purdy was.
He died
over twenty years ago, [...]


Fiddleheads by Lorette C. Luzajic
Every morning, at dawn’s first flicker in the near dark, the small girl watched the thin man descend the steep and stony incline [...]


Shortlist Saturdays: The Good Wife by Susan Richardson
Hiding behind drawn curtains,
wishing herself invisible,
she balances on wire thin moments [...]


Shortlist Saturdays: Cinders by C.E Hoffman
It started at twelve. Got worse at thirteen.
He was dying to hold her hand. That’s what makes us all first burn: desire [...]
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