Paul Stewart

Joined March 2021

1315 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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ember // dream
candlelight, steak and more, the night to remember, as the crow beckons at my door, the night to remember, as she stood there,
By Paul Stewart4 months ago in Poets
Even in Dreams. Runner-Up in The Shape of the Thing Challenge.
Despite living so close to an airport, we never stopped and truly appreciated the sight of the different passenger flights soaring into the sky. I remember vividly lying one day beside you, recently, watching the vapour trails as another steel bird left for adventures in faraway places.
By Paul Stewart4 months ago in Fiction
Much Too Young - Much Too Old
Studying my words from long ago, in the yellowed pages of my manifesto, when my mind was more alive than it is today. "Sat at my desk to create legacy. Seeking fame and respect. An empire. From behind my desk in my humble log cabin, the void between inspiration and desolation breached. With the right words in the right sequence, one could tap the creative depths of my mind and bring to fruition something remarkable-unforgettable.
By Paul Stewart4 months ago in Fiction
Blood on the Scrolls
At the breast of the mother of invention I suckled from the teat of conviction In truth, I sought more than sweetness More than colostrum, rich in goodness
By Paul Stewart4 months ago in Poets
Diamond Among Dead Empires
some poetry makes you sit up and think some poetry makes you sit down and sink some just makes you the ink spills and then and then and then
By Paul Stewart5 months ago in Poets
Jogger's Trail by Donna Fox In Review. Top Story - September 2025.
So gather round, friends, for a review of another Vocal writer's self-published book. This time, we are focusing on The Queen of Acrostics (as assigned by me), Donna Fox (HKB), and her rather excellent YA supernatural tale Jogger's Trail.
By Paul Stewart5 months ago in BookClub
Self-Inflicted Momentum
/Tipped forward by my own volition, by my own trajectory, towards the wall, that brick wall, as my world collapses
By Paul Stewart5 months ago in Poets
Mid-Breath, Mid-Fall
not exactly, I say all the stars are out tonight, this August night ~ with all the enthusiasm of an overly fraught— we wait with baited breath
By Paul Stewart5 months ago in Poets
How to Dance to Byron
...that would be clever, I agree. Clever indeed, old chap. Clever to the highest degree. The problem is, though, that so often I feel so clever
By Paul Stewart5 months ago in Poets
Between Compass and Backfire. Content Warning.
...a journey south, 10 miles as the crow flies well... it would have been south if I had a compass and who still uses 10 miles as the crow flies nowadays?
By Paul Stewart5 months ago in Poets
The Gospel of Devastation
There's nothing to fear except... me. Forget what FDR said; he never met me. Born from the wretched and venomous womb of my dear mother, I was brought into the world. No screaming. No red flags flew overhead.
By Paul Stewart5 months ago in Horror
The Precipice Calls
My outstretched arms felt like failing vines as I held on for dear life. I tried to avoid looking down, but the pull of the descent was too much. I could hear it talking to me, telling me in grotesque detail of the various victims of death by misadventure it had caused.
By Paul Stewart5 months ago in Fiction