Short Fiction and Poetry

i don’t want to collapse in front of you don’t want you to see me like that otherwise you would know i mean you would really know [...]

I was there the day Meena and Batoul brought Said into the women’s hammam, carrying him between them in an enormous plastic bucket. [...]

In the shadowed alley where the city breathes, Fyodor waits, a figure in the night, [...]

He is proud of two things—his splendid fists. I catch him in the restroom admiring himself in the mirror, clenching, [...]

In the night, two blue orbs hovered above Boe’s bed. The snakes were watching. What did they want? In the morning, Boe crouched outside [...]

Emma’s baby cousin, Becky, is an extraterrestrial on earth. Emma has known this since Becky’s birth and intends to prove it today, [...]

I spent my childhood with a split open mind,  held in place by my mother’s hand. My eyes were a video camera, [...]

DarkWinter Press is thrilled to announce our latest release, Sweet Creatures: A Trilogy of Terror by Frank Paul Beghin, available now on Amazon in paperback and e-version for Kindle! [...]

I downloaded twenty years of videos then the headset came to life. A good friend I’d lost touch with appeared in the kitchen [...]

Again, Mary Maker's hands tore apart the layered ribs of my cardboard promises. Her lips embered breaths swelled within me [...]