Short Fiction and Poetry

Curled on his side, hidden beneath the homemade tent he’d constructed on his mother’s back patio, Arlo studied his arsenal. [...]

Lina woke in the deep of night when the stars called. The attic window was far enough away from her bed to look like a painting [...]

Afraid of what the world will do you feed the birds in your white cotton dress like Aquinas tousling with the good ending, [...]

Shortlist Saturdays presents Newborn by Bill Garvey! [...]

Shortlist Saturdays presents Autumn Sonata by Zary Fekete! [...]

Douglas is surrounded by nothingness. [...]

In the same week Merriam-Websters announced authenticity as its word of the year, I was pressed to look up the meaning of emergency [...]

DarkWinter Lit is thrilled to announce that The Water Ran Cold was chosen as the winning short story in our 2nd Anniversary Contest [...]

DarkWinter Lit is thrilled to announce that Seekers by Laurie Koensgen was chosen as the winning poem in our 2nd Anniversary Contest [...]

The winter gale blew against the cottage, whistling through the cracks and causing the flames of the fire to dance like the devil. [...]