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Short Fiction and Poetry


The Drowned Woman by Esther Beland
Ectoplasmic telegraphilaments
tumored in her windpipe
like chromatin,
gill-slits resurfaced
from the depths
of last year’s tidepool. [...]


Peach Moon by Kristen Wildfire
The moon hangs low upon the night sky, round and saturated with hues of orange, pink and red. You can see it everywhere, [...]


Irreparable; Once Again I Am by Bobby Steve Baker
Sunlight flicks the pineal switch
and The Clever Boy roils out of bed
slipping unseen past the Scylla and Charybdis [...]


Last Shot by Gary Beck
The machine gun fire from the drones was so intense I couldn’t get my head up to see if the enemy was advancing. [...]


DarkWinter Press New Release: Hopper by Steve Denehan!
DarkWinter Press is excited to announce our latest release, the ekphrastic poetry collection Hopper by Steve Denehan!


Winter Poem; The Afternoon Was Feline by Patricia Wallesverd
The road East today was empty.
My blue Pontiac
was the only car on the dark road.
Winter fog hung in the air [...]


Gather The Bones by Jasmine Rahmel
Lost deep in the woods of Algonquin Park, they follow a curling thread of smoke, their last hope before nightfall. The air hums [...]


Mistaken Words by Joanne Macias
Reading the document one more time, I knew it was done. It was as good as I would be able to get it. I probably would make it worse [...]


The Ashes and the Flood by Plamen V.
The air smelled like rust and salt the day the storm warnings came. In Asheville, North Carolina, where the Appalachian ridges fold [...]


Deadeye Dicke by Kenneth M. Kapp
It didn’t happen often; sometimes a decade or more would pass, and it never was in the same location: Cold, clammy winds [...]
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