2024

Solaris and Riptide - Frivolous Comma

Mirror Test - Crepuscular Magazine

2023

Mission Amazon - HOZ Journal of Speculative Literature vol. 4. 

The Crown Has Come Home - Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine

Upon Which We Lay the Cards - Frivolous Comma

2022

Breach - Abyss & Apex #84

Bronski is asked to investigate the death of a man in a remote part of a lunar settlement. She finds the answer but that leads to more problems.
Real chill to this one.

- SFRevu

To Build Eternity, With Bones - The Deadlands issue 13

(On the Nebula Reading List for 2022 and Matt Handle's list of best free short fiction of the year)

This tale by Gunnar De Winter grabs you with its opening sentence and refuses to let go. A necromancer spurs her crew across the icy sea toward a dark purpose only she can understand and only she is likely to survive in the May issues of The Deadlands.

- Matt Handle’s riff

De Winter weaves a bone-shivering tale about a necromancer hunting for a legend. It's a story about death and bones (gigantic bones) and what it might cost you to reanimate them. It is also a story about love and desire and ambition. I love the voice and vibe of this story, and I love the necromancer's relationship with the Bone Baron, the patron saint of necromancers. 

 - Maria's Reading

Fractured - Mythaxis Magazine issue 29

The stories that Mythaxis serves as a portal to are exactly the sorts of stories you hope you would be true enough to your ideals to produce, if you had that kind of talent... In “Fractured” by Gunnar De Winter, it is easier for the neuroatypical character to relate to space aliens than to the rest of the spaceship’s crew, who in the domineering, conventionally attractive overconfidence of their neurotypicality, can’t see that they can’t see some of the wonder of the universe, not even when it speaks to them via the medium of lightning.

 - The Future Fire Reviews

2021

Roses in Rubble - HOZ Journal of Speculative Fiction vol. 3

Fifty Ways to Build a Lover - Sci Phi Journal

Artificial Zen at the End of the World - Future Science Fiction Digest vol. 11

A story of a robot and the end of the world. Philosophical and quiet, the piece finds this robot discovering purpose on a planet devoid of humanity. Or so it seemed at first. And I like the way the story moves in cycles but not necessarily in circles, finding ways to revolve forward, ushering in something new and beautiful. A lovely read!

 - Quick Sip Reviews

In ‘Artificial Zen At The End Of The World’ by Gunnar de Winter, robot self-awareness is finally achieved but humanity has gone. ‘A perfect storm of calamities had erased them from the universe at the height of their complacency.’ So the aware robot, a hermit by necessity, ‘the final monk of the order of extinction’, wanders the hellscape left behind. Impossible to summarise this. A wonderful piece of work that needs to be read.

 - SFcrowsnest

A self-aware robot wanders an Earth where all the humans have died. After a time, it finds something that it should do. It begins its work.
Nicely done.

- SFRevu

Damnation - Daily Science Fiction

2020

Spectrum - HOZ Journal of Speculative Fiction vol. 2

Trajectory - Amazing Stories #77:2

Relic - Abyss & Apex #75

Xian lives in the city called Bubble under the sea of Europa. She has been genetically modified with gills to explore the seas. She finds a curious artifact and wants to make money from it. She brings it to a scientist she has dealt with before. But he wants to have exclusive rights to it and sends his thugs to take care of Xian and her mother. Turns out they have unexpected allies. Another exciting story.

- SFRevu

Tunnels(x) - Quantum Shorts finalist

Silk Route - The New Accelerator

2019

The Lonely King - Metaphorosis

Do Not Breathe - Daily Science Fiction

The Anomaly, or the Rise of the World-Wheel - Speculative City #4

Chez Sirius - Hashtag Danger #1 (Ahoy Comics)

2018

Colony - Future Days anthology, Castrum Press

The unfolding of wings - NewMyths (reprinted in the 'best of' Passages anthology)

The age of exploration - Electric Athenaeum

2017

An Empire of Shattered Glass - Read Short Fiction

To Hear a Howling Herd - Lawless Lands: Tales from the Weird Frontier, Falstaff Books

Mirror Mirror - Daily Science Fiction