Paul Stewart

Joined March 2021

1310 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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This Was My Best Fucking Piece (And It Still Lost). Top Story - December 2025.
Confession Time Something that will not be too surprising for anyone that knows me is the fact that I am a pretty bad loser.
By Paul Stewartabout a month ago in Writers
Self-Portrait in Cliché
I wear my shame like a cliché around my neck I hold aloft my desire like a forced metaphor My time spent wallowing in the, no not mire
By Paul Stewartabout a month ago in Poets
The Rats Keep Score. Runner-Up in Villanelle of Regret Challenge.
Behold the man deserving of sackcloth Whose modesty, façade is stripped bare Picked apart by the rats and the moth ~
By Paul Stewart2 months ago in Poets
Erasure
Fragrant, come closer, she said Not nearly alone enough, I swore My hand, she took, - heart, she Stole with ---feeling
By Paul Stewart2 months ago in Poets
Reflections on Life by Donna Fox (HKB) in Review
Since I started my journey on Vocal and found poetry, I have referred to myself as an accidental poet. It was never my intention when joining this platform, but then it took my soul captive and put a gun to its head. I fear it may shoot some day if I ever decide not to pen something poetic. That's something to look forward to, eh?
By Paul Stewart2 months ago in BookClub
Happiness and Light Unofficial Challenge. Top Story - October 2025.
INTERJECTION INTERRUPTION UPDATE - Added all the entries we've received so far, and just wanted to bump this up to remind people it's still open. You still have time to enter a piece for either or both parts of the challenge - we have only received pieces for the first part of the challenge so far. - Paul Stewart, a writer. One half of the temporary twosome of John and Paul, but not Ringo and George.
By Paul Stewart2 months ago in Writers
GOSPEL OF THE RIGHTEST
CAST YOUR EYES UP AT ME GAZE AND ADORE, WORSHIP FOR I AM WHITE, MALE AND STRAIGHT ~ I DO NOT CARE, NO EMPATH NO SIMP FOR YOUR FEELINGS
By Paul Stewart2 months ago in Poets
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 Stewart2 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 Stewart2 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 Stewart2 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 Stewart2 months ago in Fiction
Slick Cartography
Heady, potent. ~ (inhale) ~ Your syrup Lines my throat, ~ (exhale) ~ As the taste Lingers On my tongue.
By Paul Stewart2 months ago in Poets