Paul Stewart

Joined March 2021

1333 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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Ching-Ching Old Marley
Dereck looked out from his Prius, with a sense of indignity at the malevolence all around him Penning the woven words of woe and dispassionate despair, he waits,
By Paul Stewart5 months ago in Poets
A Requiem to the Lordes of Poetry
Poetry is my blood it's full of pretension, that's a word, don't look it up, it's a word. Trust me and trust my pen.
By Paul Stewart5 months ago in Poets
Petrichor Between Us
I ponder if you wait long enough. The universe will intercede, interject a prolonged separation from humanity. If merely sitting, doing little to cause ripples—would that eventually create causation, and would the universe answer?
By Paul Stewart5 months ago in Fiction
Consecration and Desecration
Illumination consecrates, e'en mates In the heat of night, we take our delight Infiltrate the contract, moonstruck creates
By Paul Stewart5 months ago in Poets
Elegy of Leaves
dance in crisp delight Chlorophyll lamentation naked trees evoke * Thanks for reading! Author's Notes: Another entry for the Falling Leaves Challenge.
By Paul Stewart5 months ago in Poets
Fractured Reflections. Runner-Up in Parallel Lives Challenge. Content Warning.
Bowel movement, shower, dressed for the day ahead. Toast, marmalade, of course. Coffee, black, indubitably. Doom scroll for ten minutes before grabbing my wallet and keys. Out the door to, out the driveway for 9.30. Plenty of time to get across town to my employers.
By Paul Stewart5 months ago in Fiction
Mapping My Tears. Runner-Up in Maps of the Self Challenge.
I wasn’t sure how to approach this challenge—so many thoughts crowd my mind about internal life, psychology, and personality.
By Paul Stewart5 months ago in Humans
Edge of the Bed, Edge of the World
"You have to dream before your dreams can come true." I woke with a— some kind of feeling in the soles of my feet
By Paul Stewart5 months ago in Poets
Narcissus in Candlelight. Runner-Up in The Sonnet of Shadows Challenge.
I take thy mantle, answer the call To face the darkness swirling within; Let ink stand witness—let the blackness fall I call the pool; abyss—reveal thy skin
By Paul Stewart5 months ago in Poets
Tinnitus of the Lie. Top Story - September 2025.
Lying and me—me and lying I barely remember a time when— my mind didn’t failsafe into a lie ~ not much in recent years—but,
By Paul Stewart5 months ago in Poets
Chorus of Decay
decomposition nature's chorus of decay as fallen leaves crisp. * Thanks for reading! Author's Notes: For the Fallen Leaves Challenge.
By Paul Stewart5 months ago in Poets
Echoes of the Other
Don't you just love a nice and tidy resolution? A happy ending of sorts when all the loose ends are tied and the foes are defeated?
By Paul Stewart5 months ago in Horror