Short Fiction and Poetry

DarkWinter Press is excited to announce our latest release, the novella Dantalion is a Quiet Place by Mathew Gostelow! [...]

It was a fitting name, Rolling Vistas, situated on the edge of a picturesque town near the sprawling Shawnee National Forest. [...]

You disliked me quite spontaneously after that Developed quite a flair It didn’t matter if I twisted this way or that [...]

So many old friends upstanding on long shelves safe between strangers, holding secrets to all but me [...]

I am in the doctor’s examining room asking for the impossible. I tell him I have a sickness, a duplicate disease [...]

An alligator-sighting in the woods causes a stir on campus. Some say they’ve seen it basking in the sun outside Dean Lontmeiser’s office[..]

The otherworld-gate loomed high, bright-hider cloaked in his heavy shroud, keeping the warmth-lugger distant. [...]

As the year draws to an end, we at DarkWinter Literary Magazine and Press would like to thank you all for making 2024 such a wonderful year!

I read about it on my phone.  The children. Their father. The fire. I wondered how a mother Could go on this way. [...]

That’s not my house  I don’t live here  I see it I feel it smell it  Someone is close  Touching me, drawing my energy [...]