Short Fiction and Poetry

I had been looking closely at the property section of the local newspaper. We both wanted to move house that summer. [...]

After seven days of intolerable confinement, Izzy decided that this foggy afternoon was the right time to free herself. [...]

Stained, stray haired surface of odor-wrapped fabric — to nestle into and dream on— [...]

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. [...]