Just an FYI that we'll be taking a 2 week hiatus while we journey overseas. We'll be back on August 17th with more amazing poetry and fiction!
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Small press and literary magazine from Ontario, Canada publishing poetry, short stories, novels, and novellas. Editor: Suzanne Craig-Whytock
When technology does its job too well. Darkly clever Automate by Eric DePriester now up on DarkWinter Lit! www.darkwinterlit.com/post/automat...
Automate by Eric DePriester
“It’ll make your job easier,” my boss said. “It’ll take my job,” I said. “Eventually.” He patted my shoulder and left me with the robot. [...]
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"I wished that one day no one would try to break our dreams..." Gorgeous prose in this new story From My Childhood Balcony by Lena Solomon now up on DarkWinter Lit! www.darkwinterlit.com/post/from-my...
From My Childhood Balcony by Lena Solomon
From the height of the second-floor balcony, my dad hung every year a few flowerpots to cover the building’s missing chunks of plaster [...]
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Longlist Saturdays is Wednesday this week--we're on vacation now until the middle of August. For our final Longlist short story, we present Fishmonger by Dacey Eliot, a frightening piece with an important underlying social critique, now up on DarkWinter Lit! www.darkwinterlit.com/post/longlis...
Longlist Saturdays: Fishmonger by Dacey Eliot
Lou saw the red van as soon as he turned the corner. He was just a minute away from reaching the shop. [...]
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Longlist Saturdays is Wednesday this week--we're on vacation now until the middle of August. For our final Longlist poem, we present the powerfully bleak On My Own by Brandon Shane. (photo credit: Robert L. Hunt) www.darkwinterlit.com/post/longlis...
Longlist Saturdays: On My Own by Brandon Shane
But wind only feels like flight when you are dry, and love only feels like love when you deserve it. [...]
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Spirited away. Intriguing new poem Sailing Through the Rarefied Air of Our Own Reality by Jason Ryberg now up on DarkWinter Lit! www.darkwinterlit.com/post/smooth-...
Smooth Sailing Through the Rarefied Air of Our Own Reality by Jason Ryberg
Steering with one hand at 12 o’clock and with the other wrapped around a long-neck bottle [...]
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Stony don't play. Cool new story Dawn At The Presto by Michael Fontana @michaelfontana.bsky.social now up on DarkWinter Lit! www.darkwinterlit.com/post/dawn-at...
Dawn At The Presto by Michael Fontana
In 1987, Stony worked the counter at the Presto Lounge, deep inside The Mumbles, a neighborhood already known for its poverty and crime [...]
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For our third Longlist Saturday poem, we present the beautifully crafted piece Compulsion: A Field Guide by McLord Selasi @mclorselasi.bsky.social now up on DarkWinter Lit! www.darkwinterlit.com/post/longlis...
Longlist Saturdays: Compulsion: A Field Guide by McLord Selasi
There are 47 ceiling tiles in the waiting room. I have counted them seventeen times while the receptionist pretends not to notice [...]
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Clever and darkly prophetic, this new story The Prompt Shop by Emily Dontsos will definitely make you think for yourself! www.darkwinterlit.com/post/the-pro...
The Prompt Shop by Emily Dontsos
It was finally here. Presentation day. The moment that could define the trajectory of his career. Jake had stayed up late [...]
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"We are gorgeous here..." Also gorgeous is this new poem Campus by Colette Maxfield @pickledp3.bsky.social now up on DarkWinter Lit! www.darkwinterlit.com/post/campus-...
Campus by Colette Maxfield
We travelled like stars through three forests Densely protruding through thickets And tangled unceremoniously like hair.
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Excited to have my story, “Yes, And…” published by @darkwinterlitmag.bsky.social today! It’s a 7 minute read - check it out :) www.darkwinterlit.com/post/yes-and... #flashfiction #creativewriting #positivewords
Yes And... by Will Kelly
Bea dips chicken breast into egg yolk before coating them in panko breadcrumbs. She’s making her famous chicken parmesan for dinner. [...]
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DarkWinter Press is thrilled to announce the release of Caught Looking, the exciting baseball fiction novel by Raymond McGregor. The Kindle version is available for pre-order 'til Friday and the paperback is available now! Click below for more information! www.darkwinterlit.com/post/darkwin...
DarkWinter Press New Release: Caught Looking by Raymond McGregor!
DarkWinter Press is thrilled to announce our latest release, the exciting sports fiction novel Caught Looking by Raymond McGregor!
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Life lessons abound in this lovely story Yes And... by Will Kelly now up on DarkWinter Lit! www.darkwinterlit.com/post/yes-and...
Yes And... by Will Kelly
Bea dips chicken breast into egg yolk before coating them in panko breadcrumbs. She’s making her famous chicken parmesan for dinner. [...]
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Being and becoming. Two beautiful new poems Metamorphosis and Elegy by Thistle Dunsmuir now up on DarkWinter Lit! www.darkwinterlit.com/post/metamor...
Metamorphosis; Elegy by Thistle Dunsmuir
I cannot remember how many lives I have lived this year or who I was before them, what aching child clutched the bars of my rib cage [...]
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Strange weather. For our second Longlist Saturday short story, we present Meteorology by Daniel Key, now up on DarkWinter Lit! www.darkwinterlit.com/post/meteoro...
Longlist Saturdays: Meteorology by Daniel Key
When I was a little girl, I wanted to read the weather. The lady would come on our screen just after the news was done. [...]
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Signs from the universe. For our second Longlist Saturday poem, we present Feathers by Susan Richardson @shadesofgreen.bsky.social now up on DarkWinter Lit! www.darkwinterlit.com/post/longlis...
Longlist Saturdays: Feathers by Susan Richardson
The week my mother died, I found a feather resting like a charred star on the white shag rug in my bedroom. [...]
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We don't think his end of semester reviews will be very flattering. Loving this clever new story Outworn by Ruth Latta now up on DarkWinter Lit! www.darkwinterlit.com/post/outworn...
Outworn by Ruth Latta
“For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.”Our writing instructor presented this sentence to us as an example of flash fiction. Although he was sure none of us could surpass this gem by Ernest Hemingway, he a...
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"The one I wore when I met her." Fabulous new poem Burial Shirt by Joe Couture @rjcouture.bsky.social now up on DarkWinter Lit! www.darkwinterlit.com/post/burial-...
Burial Shirt by Joe Couture
Prufrock measured life in coffee spoons ‘round here, it’s draughts, cheques, trips to Puerto Plata— where poor camareras change old boys’ bedsheets
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You can feel the heat in this vivid new poem Evolution of a Prairie Spring by Kirstian Lezubski now up on DarkWinter Lit! www.darkwinterlit.com/post/evoluti...
Evolution of a Prairie Spring by Kirstian Lezubski
In March when the days stretch swollen-jointed fingers through the grey seed hull of winter sun, [...]
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"You're up next, kid." Darkly humorous new story The Divine Comedy Lounge by Simon Collison now up on DarkWinter Lit! www.darkwinterlit.com/post/the-div...
The Divine Comedy Lounge by Simon Collison
I’m just hanging around this cramped room awaiting the dreaded words, “You're up next , kid”. Pacing up and down like a caged animal [...]
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We've now published two of MG Turner's short stories (there's a link to it in this story). And, he has a collection of short fiction coming out next year from @darkwinterlitmag.bsky.social
Philip S Turner@pstnyc.bsky.social · 3w agoApropos of Christopher Nolan’s film version of “The Odyssey” here’s a story about the bard himself by MG Turner, pub’d @theseaboardreview.ca, a great publication. We're grateful for their support of his mythological explorations. #writing #fiction #theodyssey www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/the-song-o...
Dark Winter was kind enough to publish a recent flash. Thank you to the editors, and if you give it a look, thank you, too.
darkwinterlitmag@darkwinterlitmag.bsky.social · 4w agoA lease with an interesting clause. Flaming good new story The Old Fireplace by Foster Trecost @fostertrecost.bsky.social now up on DarkWinter Lit! www.darkwinterlit.com/post/the-old...
For our first Longlist Saturday poem, we present the beautiful Autopsy of an Artist by Cypher now up on DarkWinter Lit! www.darkwinterlit.com/post/longlis...
Longlist Saturdays: Autopsy of an Artist by Cypher
I am a lone traveler with a bag of metaphors. It gets bigger with every new person [...] and place, but not in weight.
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For our first Longlist Saturday, we present this dark new story Sharkskin by Bruce McAllister now up on DarkWinter Lit! www.darkwinterlit.com/post/longlis...
Longlist Saturdays: Sharkskin by Bruce McAllister
When my father was stationed on that beautiful bay with its long, uninhabited peninsula, we lived in officer quarters [...]
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A lease with an interesting clause. Flaming good new story The Old Fireplace by Foster Trecost @fostertrecost.bsky.social now up on DarkWinter Lit! www.darkwinterlit.com/post/the-old...
The Old Fireplace by Foster Trecost
I gave each line a fair start but finished only a few. After the first page, I was eager to sign so I quickly flipped to the second. [...]
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All she wanted was a little fudge--is that too much to ask? Tasty new story Five-Minute Boil by Alison Motluk @alisonmotluk.bsky.social now up on DarkWinter Lit! www.darkwinterlit.com/post/five-mi...
Five-Minute Boil by Alison Motluk
Maybe it was the fact that it was day three out of five on her own with the kids — Richard was away on business again [...]
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