Short Fiction and Poetry

After the funeral, we’re standing outside your building, saying nothing to each other. Shielding you from the wind [...]

Teenage girls make the best friends, and the worst enemies. It’s better to learn that early on. [...]

Cologne in the summer, crowds meander through hazy streets from the cathedral to the bridge, the place where sweethearts meet. [...]

DarkWinter Press is extremely proud to announce the release of Sean Patrick Carlin's debut novel The Dogcatcher! [...]

I suddenly awake from the company of stars to find silent flesh quietly forming on my dry old bones like snow, layer upon layer. [...]

What else do you need to know? Outside our boxes of light, ghosts we no longer believe in refuse to flicker or flinch at the edges,[...]

Betsy certainly stood out in my tenth-grade English class. She stood out for a number of reasons, first of all because she was six-foot[...]

Rousted by his father from a deep skullcap sleep in the trembling yolk-yellow glow of a flaming smoking reedmace, wind groaning [...]

Put your lips to the edges of this glowing pyre. A guilty taste of the pleasure that is destruction. [...]

The windshield wipers clicked in time, sweeping away the falling snow as the slow-moving pick-up truck navigated the wintery conditions[...]