Short Fiction and Poetry

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[...]

I’m awake, but why is it dark? Am I really awake? Yes, I am. But I can’t see anything. What’s going on? I feel bandages around my head [...]

You scream into the Void All the pain never said But you scream it all the same [...]

It’s nights like this when Earth’s dark and serene, I sink into its inky swell of anonymity. [...]

Gerald plucked two pieces of toast from the toaster, buttered both, and spread two dabs of peanut butter across them. [...]

DarkWinter Lit is excited to announce our inaugural Best Of The Net nominees for 2023! [...]