Paul Stewart

Joined March 2021

1334 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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Enfant Terrible (Autopsy in Three Movements)
Part 1: Invocation - Twisted psychosis cystic fibrosis a criminal act of nature myopia dilation - terminus frustration
By Paul Stewart8 months ago in Poets
Climbing Age and Sloping Back
For someone on the low-rung of the ladder of life, it seems in vain to think of anything beyond my own impossibly unimportant bubble.
By Paul Stewart8 months ago in Poets
In the Downwind
From inside tortured gut. Taut and pressed, rebut. Time passes time passes time passes time passes time passes time passes time passes
By Paul Stewart8 months ago in Poets
Memento Mori No More
Pit ter-patter, the rai n. mirrored the p ai n. of All en's short, un eventful 22 years. rain he no lon
By Paul Stewart8 months ago in Poets
Beyond Petroleum
Beyond Petroleum Beyond Patronising Deepwater Horizon Greenwashing Surprising? No. With PR men, Their bold words, dirtier hands
By Paul Stewart8 months ago in Poets
Fancy o Sick (or: A Brief History of My Innards)
dirt dirt stained grained she spins me round, ingrained and restrained like a rotisserie chicken derailed, resailed
By Paul Stewart8 months ago in Poets
The Mint That Nearly Killed Me. Runner-Up in I Wrote This Challenge.
This challenge initially seemed like a strange idea. I get it. AI and plagiarism are on the rise. But every single thing I write is mine and mine alone. Can you really imagine anyone else writing half the things I’ve written since I joined Vocal? But a challenge is a challenge.
By Paul Stewart8 months ago in Writers
Regression
My eyes are bleary, my head — heavy. I tried not once, but thrice to compose myself, to fight the tide, to compose the words for the
By Paul Stewart8 months ago in Poets
What I Should Have Said
She brings me sunshine with her smile challenges me, coaxes my very best— even when I resist. - She is fierce, intelligent, emotionally mature,
By Paul Stewart8 months ago in Poets
Bloated Wolves
So much gets left unsaid reserved for the journal in my head, not out loud — pushed down, right down until it burns
By Paul Stewart8 months ago in Poets
Not Macbeth
the sound and fury no idiots, poor players just you and me—ever * Thanks for reading! Author's Notes: This is my entry for Carolina Borges' 500 Reads Haiku Challenge, which you can find out more about by following the link below.
By Paul Stewart8 months ago in Poets
Four Bowls of Glory. Top Story - June 2025.
As much as Nonna’s was a place for laughter, argument, and wine, it was also a gladiatorial arena. Where only the best could triumph.
By Paul Stewart8 months ago in Writers