Paul Stewart

Joined March 2021

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

The Accidental Poet - Poetry Collection out now!

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Contractual Retribution
Don’t worry, you’re still alive. You’re blindfolded. The room you’re in is the last room you’ll set foot in. The sound you hear? My tools need to be kept sharp.
By Paul Stewartabout a year ago in Horror
The Curse and the Flicker of the Shadow
Author's Preamble: About a year ago, "Why Do You Trust Your Shadow?" which I feel serves as a nice intro to my story. (please check it out at the link, but I've included it below also)
By Paul Stewartabout a year ago in Horror
Salient Saline Warning
I met an alien bathing in saline It was quite the unexpected scene he said, "Sir, my galaxy dweller I'm not an accomplished seller
By Paul Stewartabout a year ago in Poets
A Bloody Business by Stephen A. Roddewigg In Review
Over the last few months, or longer, I have been reviewing Vocal creators' forays into the world of self-publishing and publishing. So far, I have reviewed "Glass Dolls" by L.C. Schäfer and "Wasted Love" by Poppy.
By Paul Stewartabout a year ago in BookClub
scratches in my mind - heart<mind
the mirror reflect ideas our hearts detect though our minds deflect * why give time and space to any...anything at all
By Paul Stewartabout a year ago in Poets
We Never Did. Top Story - October 2024.
There was one rule: don't open the door. That one rule overshadowed our lives since we had moved into our makeshift annexe of a home—not that our lives were much at all. Pariahs, outcasts, we were designed for destruction and existed for experimentation and extermination. Though we lived in fear of our sorry mortal coils being unwound, we tried to live positively.
By Paul Stewartabout a year ago in Horror
One Door To...Wait, Presque. No.
There was only one rule: don't open the door. As I stand guard at the door, the door that should not be opened. I stand here as a noble warrior. A noble warrior with a helmet, sword and everything.
By Paul Stewartabout a year ago in Horror
Diacope
My Word: Diacope Definition: Noun, Rhetoric. A literary or rhetorical device that emphasizes an aspect of the writer’s or speaker’s main idea through the repetition of words or phrases, which are separated by other words or phrases, as in “You’re a good dog, Gracie. Such a good dog. What a good dog.”
By Paul Stewartabout a year ago in Poets
Between The Breezeblock and The Portacabin
my hubris, is in the toilet (portacabin at Glastonbury{son, you've never been, never seen, never danced under the stars at Glasto})
By Paul Stewartabout a year ago in Poets
a-fallin' on me
drip drop drop drip drip drippity droppity drip rain keeps a-fallin' * Thanks for reading! Author's Notes: Bit of lighthearted tomfoolery. This is a riff on one of my favourite Top Stories ever - Time is Running Out - please take the time to click the link and enjoy, so you can understand the connection and why it is one of my favourite poems and favourite Top Stories. ha.
By Paul Stewartabout a year ago in Poets
Retreating Our Frozen Horizons
from the sky we see our retreating horizons time is running out * Thanks for reading! Author's Notes: Another quite pointed one for the Sky-ku challenge. I'm not sorry. Not for the poem anyway.
By Paul Stewartabout a year ago in Poets
Plainly Seen Proof
when clouds you fly through the curvature of the earth is plainly seen proof * Thanks for reading! Author's Notes: This just came to me for the Sky-ku Challenge. I make no apologies.
By Paul Stewartabout a year ago in Poets