Paul Stewart

Joined March 2021

1339 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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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
Echoes of Myself
under bed, scary no, with voices in my head terrorising me * Thanks for reading! Author's Notes: For the Haunted Echoes challenge. As ever, I took a very personal approach. Nothing scarier, in reality, than my own head.
By Paul Stewart5 months ago in Poets
forward / foreword
Mother f- Mother f- Mother f- through my mask— feel my seethe my teeth grate like chalk on a board, aluminium
By Paul Stewart5 months ago in Poets
Bukowski Was Right: Don't Try
I considered writing yesterday, Sunday 15th September, and nothing was working—so I didn’t. In case you are wondering what constitutes Paul Stewart not writing, I finished editing and published an ode to Donna Fox. So, it wasn't exactly an unproductive day.
By Paul Stewart5 months ago in Writers
Foxed by Donna
Did you happen to hear of a young Canadian by the name of Donna? Of literary fame, she should surely be, eventually, in my opinion
By Paul Stewart5 months ago in Poets
The Hunger That Hunts
Running through a city in the dead of night to help a woman dressed only in white, in a way that’s only possible in dreams—
By Paul Stewart5 months ago in Poets
When Talent is Non-Existent
When I saw Sam Spinelli's challenge, asking us to name and shame our five least favourite songs, I got very excited. I can be a grumpy, judgemental, opinionated ass at the best of times (ask Ruth, the good lady wife!), but when it comes to music, I've learned to try and keep schtum when I think something is terrible. All because I'm just trying to be a better person (My Name is Earl opening ref, anyone?).
By Paul Stewart5 months ago in Beat