Short Fiction and Poetry

As the year draws to an end, we at DarkWinter Literary Magazine and Press would like to thank you all for making 2024 such a wonderful year!

I read about it on my phone.  The children. Their father. The fire. I wondered how a mother Could go on this way. [...]

That’s not my house  I don’t live here  I see it I feel it smell it  Someone is close  Touching me, drawing my energy [...]

He clumsily stumbled into a tree, catching himself before collapsing into a forest of dreams. His mind was in a haze [...]

I walked with my invisible dog on a leash and people with real dogs smiled and said, “What a lovely animal!” [...]

I was on a trail. But then I was on a train. I was with the beloved. How come the sun doesn’t hurt your eyes with the brightness [...]

Dressed in a tattered green cagoule and oversized yellow boots, Mister Whistler cut a peculiar figure. [...]

Bennie turned from Kai to hide her glee. Her pulse quickened. She stayed silent and awaited the push, the pressure.  [...]

This is not a letter. This is a rant. This is a speech. This is a statement. I am sick and tired of making a plan [...]

“I like the touch of the cool sheets when we get into bed,” the man had said on the first of many nights. The city lights were shining [...]