Paul Stewart

Joined March 2021

1370 stories

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Award-Winning Writer, Poet, Scottish-Italian, Subversive.

The Accidental Poet - Poetry Collection out now!

Streams and Scratches in My Mind coming soon!

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Doctor's Orders
Donna was walking along past the same houses and shops she always walked past on her way home from work. She was in a good mood, as she had recently discovered she was due a promotion. Nothing was out of the ordinary until she was drawn rather magnetically towards a strange and uncanny door. What made it uncanny? She was unsure, but it felt decidedly "off." Not least of all because she had never seen it before.
By Paul Stewart4 months ago in Fiction
Complicit. Runner-Up in The Forgotten Room Challenge.
Forsaken, I am but a memory — dilapidated, some say; laid to rest in history’s mausoleum. The dank air, my only companion.
By Paul Stewart4 months ago in Fiction
Echoes on the Breeze. Winner in Harvest of Memory Challenge.
Echoes on the breeze Exhaust fumes, contrails Linger as reminders ~ Poesy these lines For my erudite Verbosity Can’t replace
By Paul Stewart4 months ago in Poets
Fetterman's Wake
I'm the kind of asshole who would hold his own wake just to see what those closest — and not so closest — to me would say. To see if they'd even turn up. Ego, ego, ego; dies at death, or is it reborn and energized?
By Paul Stewart4 months ago in Fiction
Slick Cartography
Heady, potent. ~ (inhale) ~ Your syrup Lines my throat, ~ (exhale) ~ As the taste Lingers On my tongue.
By Paul Stewart5 months ago in Poets
Do You Want People to Separate You From Your Art?. Top Story - November 2025.
Roman Polanski, Kevin Spacey, Michael Jackson, Caravaggio, Richard Wagner, Woody Allen, J.K. Rowling, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Virginia Woolf, R. Kelly, Miles Davis, Carl Jung, Francis Bacon, and Jackson Pollock.
By Paul Stewart5 months ago in Writers
Spirals Downhill
It all starts with the mistaken belief (sorry Hank, but not that much) that anyone wants to read anything I write. The spirals downhill from there.
By Paul Stewart5 months ago in Poets
Frost's First Trick
The crisp crunch of a different kind. Everything brown and dead has left. Ethereal and surreal, for sure— but the warning call,
By Paul Stewart5 months ago in Poets
In The Open Abyss. Runner-Up in Letters to the Moon Challenge.
I wonder, oh how I wonder — not about your ability or your presence, though in truth, they do elicit reverence and admiration.
By Paul Stewart5 months ago in Poets
Glass Danse Macabre
The stillness. The steely stillness that stole my breath was ever present. For so long, it had claimed my heart and devotion, and felt alive. Now it felt empty.
By Paul Stewart5 months ago in Fiction
Ada
Our humble homestead was much like the others in our town — bricks and mortar, hard work and sweat, the fruits of diligent labour and precise planning.
By Paul Stewart5 months ago in Fiction
blood on my brain. Top Story - November 2025.
there's a line a few in fact that i forget the relevance so resolute in my affliction i take a moment turn it into a lifetime
By Paul Stewart5 months ago in Poets