Short Fiction and Poetry

Have you ever looked out on the woods as the wind did howl? And think that you may have seen the eyes of the owl? [...]

DarkWinter Press is excited to announce our latest release, The Roach Family and Other Stories by Cindy Matthews [...]

Under this bridge, brides are sent to find lost rings. Have you not heard? It takes a life to calm the water. I’d rather be woman [...]

I invented a new podcast where I went to different parks around my city and struck up conversations with people there. [...]

Danny hides under his bed blanket, scared of the howling wind and his parents' intense, constant arguing. Footsteps pound [...]

Walls move, I stay  static, propped  as yellow and white  polyester gowns swim  across floors, whispering,  breathing. 

Joseph O’Kay looked at his watch and realized he had missed his six-thirty train by five minutes.  His position as a Department Head [...]

Shell monotone cover, softly inked pages, where have you not come with me speaking of cigarettes and cigarettes and cigarettes [...]

Glistening banks line the roadside and I navigate the snowy sidewalk, my figure skates slung over one shoulder, my toque pulled down [...]

lenticular clouds compress logarithmically to the far horizon. [...]