Short Fiction and Poetry

Three nights in a row now, my little sister had tried to leap out the bedroom window. It wasn’t a big drop, but she'd have gotten hurt [...]

Like a language you don’t speak, sorrow claims your tongue. You don’t know how it arrived here. [...]

Robert Samp looks down at his hands. There is no blood, but he sees it anyway, like a daymare in technicolour. [...]

Whoever warned us not to ‘go gently into the night’ never went there himself so he doesn’t know [...]

DarkWinter Lit is thrilled to announce that New Normal by Leonard Diepeveen was chosen as the winning entry in our 4th Anniversary Short Story Contest! [...]

DarkWinter Lit is thrilled to announce that I Would Bring A Lamb by Adele Evershed was chosen as the winning entry in our 4th Anniversary Poetry Contest! [...]

From out of the silence of the vacant street came the sound of echoes. Not echoes of any discernible happening [...]

We live in a house where everything is white like a still life by Giorgio Morandi. The roof line is snow on a mountain

The wind chimes, silver-tongued on the balcony today, different sounds—[...]

Jesse discovered the body during the apartment check. All the other areas were clear, and the walls, ceilings, and piping were intact, [...]