Short Fiction and Poetry

I took my kindness to the river and held it under: Felt the flesh of its neck beneath my fingers As it expired [...]

i wish to origami myself into a paper butterfly– smaller, smaller–until i can fit inside the gaps between your ribs

My foot throbbing, unable to walk, I lay on a cot in Emergency. The light was too dim to read. I closed my eyes.

And I remember your painting of cows with blue shadows well ­­- the copy of Dirk Wears White Socks you hid and played

This moon, clinging to a cloudless sky, offers the light by which we love.

“If I told you once, I told you a hundred times, don’t run the Wreckhouse during a storm!” John’s voice roared over the radio. [...]

Available now, the first publication under our new imprint Baxter House Editions--The Places We Haunt by Cecilia Kennedy! [...]

Detective Wolinski slams the phone receiver onto the cradle. A lit Pall Mall balanced on the side of his desk crashes [...]

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 [...]